Elemental mercury spills

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 147-152

  Baughman, Thomas A ^a  

^a ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleanup; Elemental mercury; Health effects; Mercury; Prevention; Remediation; Spill; Spill management

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; NATURAL GAS;

AIR QUALITY CONTROL; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTAINER; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; EYE IRRITATION; FISH; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INHALATION; LAKE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG INJURY; MANOMETER; MERCURIALISM; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLAY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RASH; SHOE; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; SPILLAGE; STORAGE; STREAM (RIVER); THERMOMETER; UNITED STATES; VACUUM; VAPOR; WALKING; WATER CONTAMINATION; WEATHER;

ACCIDENTS; ADULT; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MERCURY; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 32044435190     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7048     Document Type: Note

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