How to Use methylmercury in a Sentence

methylmercury

noun

• The authors of the MMWR report note that this is the first time that methylmercury has shown up in skin-lightening creams.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2019
• Back in the lab, the couple spawned them and raised the embryos in water containing methylmercury.
  — Carrie Arnold, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2021
• The woman had purchased a product labeled as Ponds Rejuveness, to which had been added the methylmercury.
  — Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, 25 Dec. 2019
• One other person also was exposed to methylmercury from the same skin cream, but her symptoms were much less severe.
  — Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, 25 Dec. 2019
• Most of the mercury was in the most toxic form to humans, methylmercury, thus such an increase is troubling, even though the 2008 levels were still considered safe to consume.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2015
• Either way, methylmercury could be absorbed by things living in the water, including plants and shellfish.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2020
• Three years after researchers stopped adding mercury, the concentration of methylmercury in the water dropped by 81 percent.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021
• The oceans absorb this airborne mercury, and microorganisms convert the metal into a form called methylmercury.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2019
• Bacteria in water and soil can transform mercury into another form, called methylmercury, which builds up in the food chain.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
• Most of the fish are safe to eat, at least occasionally; the state warns against eating certain species with high levels of toxins including PCBs, or methylmercury.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• In the woman’s case, health officials found the organic mercury compound methylmercury in her skin cream, which is more dangerous.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2019
• The mercury in the air is disbursed widely through the atmosphere and ends up in waters, where bacteria convert the substance into methylmercury, which is a form that can be absorbed by fish.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 2 Dec. 2019
• Initial studies in the 1960s linked the toxicity to a molecule made of mercury and carbon called methylmercury.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2020
• The potential negative effects of methylmercury in fish are far smaller than the adverse effects of eating too little fish.
  — Jaclyn London, Ms, Rd, Good Housekeeping, 27 Mar. 2018
• Face creams often contain mercury salts, but the woman’s toiletry item contained much stronger methylmercury iodide.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Once mercury gets into the water, it’s converted into toxic methylmercury and consumed by fish.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 15 Feb. 2023
• Lab analysis found an average of three times more methylmercury in the Santa Cruz mountain lions than in cougars living in less foggy inland regions.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• But methylmercury that has started to accumulate in the region thanks to human endeavors is more dangerous.
  — Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• Mercury, particularly in the form of methylmercury, can be toxic to the body, particularly the nervous system.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2015
• Initial re-analysis of 717’s brain turned up a mix of carbon-free, inorganic mercury molecules and methylmercury.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2020
• Predatory fish — which build up methylmercury by eating other fish — include: all species of black bass and gar, striped bass, white bass, hybrid striped bass, walleye, sauger, saugeye, flathead catfish, muskellunge and northern pike.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• Bacteria in the bay converted the inorganic toxin into more noxious form of methylmercury.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2020
• But in 1968, the Japanese government blamed methylmercury, a common byproduct of mercury pollution.
  — Joshua Sokoloski, Science | AAAS, 24 Mar. 2020
• Beyond the skin cream, the most common source of methylmercury exposure is from eating fish, which essentially accumulate it from polluted food.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2019
• That is relatively harmless, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compared to methylmercury, which is found in fish and can be detrimental in higher doses.
  — Cole Lauterbach, Washington Examiner, 28 Feb. 2020
• Artisanal miners in the region also use methylmercury to separate gold from other substances, which contaminates water, soil, and the plants and animals that depend on them.
  — Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• As microorganisms consume the methylmercury, the metal accumulates and migrates up the food chain; that is why the largest predator fish (sharks and swordfish, for example) typically have the highest concentrations.
  — David Kirby, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2011
• Older fish are high in the neurotoxin methylmercury, which is especially dangerous to children and pregnant women.
  — Terry Spencer, Star Tribune, 12 May 2021
• Mercury is a naturally occurring metal that is released into the environment from mining and burning coal, which can accumulate in fish in a more toxic form of methylmercury, the office’s report said.
  — Joseph Geha, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2019
• Once deposited, certain microorganisms can change mercury into more dangerous methylmercury, a highly toxic form that builds up in fish, shellfish and animals that eat fish, in a process known as bioaccumulation.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 28 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024