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Chemistry series Part II (Mercury - A Torture Killer)

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  We all know the trends on cine industry, if a feel good movies or any particular genre done well on market then more feel good movies or particular genre movies will come until the trend goes off. Recent trending film genre is violent movies, villains will kill innocent people violently in different ways that's the old way of making this genre movies but now even way of film making changed - Hero started killing people's on villain gang, then the main villain violently and some times innocent people (don't know why).   Mercury is such a torture killer, it will not kill people instantly but people who exposing themselves to mercury poisoning on regular basis will die eventually but the suffering will be brutal. We are going to see such real life incident's. The most famous one is Dr Karen Wetterhahn's death Many peoples died due to mercury poisoning but professor Karen wetterhahn's death stuns research field because she was a chemist - her profession was inves

Chemistry series Part I (Mercury - The hero and The villain)

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Sometime we failed to understand the real face of the people until time reveals it or we have do some research. Mercury is the perfect example. Yes, once celebrated as Hero (medicinal and many industrial uses) but now it was prohibited in many industries (Villain) and also poses risk towards environmental emissions and health. On periodic table, it has the symbol of Hg and its atomic number is 80. It exists in several forms 1) Elemental mercury 2) Inorganic mercury component 3) Methylmercury and other organic component Elemental mercury Shiny, silvery-white metal and liquid at room temperature. Exposed elemental mercury can evaporate to became an invisible, odourless toxic vapour, if heated it is colourless, odourless gas at room temperature. Elemental mercury is an element that has not reacted with another substance. When mercury react with another substance, it becomes a compound such as inorganic mercury component or organic mercury component. It is used in older thermometers, fluor