Continuing my article from
Various Types of Poison As A Reference For Your Novel (3), here are the list of
harmful toxins number 7 and 8:
- MERCURY
Mercury has a
chemical symbol of Hg in solid form, but this compound has three dangerous forms.
The first is in the form of an element that can be found easily on thermometer as its fluid. This substance is not dangerous to the touch but deadly if inhaled. The second is in organic form which typically used to makes batteries. It will be lethal if swallowed. The last one is in the shape of organic form that’s found in fish such as tuna or swordfish.
The first is in the form of an element that can be found easily on thermometer as its fluid. This substance is not dangerous to the touch but deadly if inhaled. The second is in organic form which typically used to makes batteries. It will be lethal if swallowed. The last one is in the shape of organic form that’s found in fish such as tuna or swordfish.
Although the
amount of allowed consumption is limited approximately in 170 g per week,
nonetheless it will be potentially deadly in long term. All the elements,
except in liquid form, are highly toxic and can bring death in a dose of less
than 1 gram.
The damage of
Mercury poisoning for living beings happened when the compound holds the blood
stream to vital organs which we knew needs more blood than others. The effect
includes damage to the brain, kidneys, and lungs. Other effect of Mercury
poisoning in small doze in term of continuity is causing Pink Disease, Hunter-Russell
syndrome, and Minamata Diseases.
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| The plaque of Mercury that being held in lungs |
Read also:
Pink Disease is a disease
where the sufferer's body changes color to pink. Human blood deficiency of
hemoglobin for red should have been broken up and turned paler.
Hunter-Russell Syndrome,
is a disease where sufferers experience lost their ability to speak and the
vision.
Minamata Disease is a
neurological dysfunction syndrome caused by acute mercury poisoning. The symptoms
are tingling in feet and hands, excessive fatigue, and sight narrowing.
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| Dead fish that poison by Mercury at pollution river |
Environmental
damage caused by global warming and disposal of chemical wastes into the sea
also increased the case of Mercury poisoning to humans. That might happened
when humans consuming sea fish from market which we unnoticed that have been
contaminated with chemical waste.
The habit of
eating whales and dolphins do the Japanese people as well so one causes of
Mercury poisoning. Tetsuya Endo, professor of Faculty of Health at University
of Hokkaido has conducted a series of tests to the whale meat bought in the
town of Taiji and found that the content of Mercury on the meat was 20 times
higher than the standard Mercury are allowed to be consumed.
- DIMETHYLMERCURY
This compound is
recorded as one component of the earliest organometallic mercury. It’s formed
from the fusion process of sodium amalgam and methyl halides, and achieving
stability form as dimethylmercury. In liquid form and colorless these compounds
counted to be one of the most deadly neurotoxin.
It also described
as a compound that has mild sweet smell that resembles a perfume, but it’s forbidden
to breathe it too long just to detect it because it would be very deadly for
the body in the next doze and minutes.
The substances
classified as a slow killer made by human that actually makes it dangerous.
With a low dosage absorption 0,1 ml alone has proven fatal, while the newly
detected or symptoms of poisoning emerged months after initial exposure
occurred.
No symptoms are
felt by the victims so they don’t realize that they had been poisoned at an
early stage so it will be too late to treat. In 1997 Karen Wetterhahn, a
chemistry professor at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, spilled two drops of
poison dimethylmercury in her gloved hand, and new symptoms appeared four
months later. The professor died in the tenth month.
Of cases it
proved that dimethylmercury can pass through latex that commonly used as a
laboratory rubber gloves or PVC pipe in seconds. After penetrating the latex,
the liquid can be absorbed so quickly by the skin.
The number of
safety devices used to prevent exposure of the liquid chemical was not able to
protect from contamination dimethylmercury that has been released into the
wild.
Dimethylmercury is
so dangerous so this compound was not used for any purpose other than for human
life is stored in a secure storage tubes in a laboratory till now.
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