Mercury+(Silver+Class)

Jacob Listerud


 * Summary**

Mercury has benefits but also some harmful effects. The benefits of mercury are that it helps paint stop mold growing, it allows thermometers and light switches to work, and it allows batteries to function currents.

The harmful effects in mercury include declining blood concentrations, kidney damage, lung injury, and personality changing. The damage that mercury does is done most drastically whenever we eat fish contaminated with mercury.

I believe that it may decline the act of fishing and provide less seafood, but I believe that for our health benefits, we should remove mercury from all methods of fishing, and before we allow fish to be sold out on the market, we clean out all mercury.


 * Abstract**

Mercury may have been a useful element in devices like switches and batteries, but it also has some problems affecting health. All metals have had harmful health effects, but at the same time, economic benefits. Mercury is no different. But there’s an easy way to get a head start on reducing the health risks. And I have found one just now.

These are the economic benefits of mercury: the mercury is used in paint, batteries, switches, and thermometers. The mercury in paint prevents mold from growing. The mercury in batteries and switches allows the electricity to flow through the circuits and function the electronics. It helps manufacturers for all of them gain profit and raise money for their corporations.

Here are some of mercury’s health problems. Mercury could slow down blood flows, damage the kidneys, and injure the lungs. Mercury could have been taken from breathing it in through its products, but the most effective injection of Mercury was when you find it in a fish you eat.

Wyoming’s Upper Fremont Glacier has a painful majority of mercury deposited there. At first, it was believed to be natural, but scientific sources say that it wasn’t the case. There was some that was natural, and it was caused by volcanoes. But even more of it was a result from man, producing pig iron, gold, steel, and other metal.

I think our best place to get a head start in solving the mercury problems is to either make sure that mercury isn’t in any fishing devices whatsoever, or remove mercury from fish before selling them. Because the biggest problem with mercury is when we eat a fish that is contaminated with it. But it’s also the best place to start the cure for this disease.


 * Mercury Production**

Mercury could be produced by heating its commercial ore, cinnabar, in the air. But mostly it is produced in mines. The primary process of mercury is from mercury ores and the secondary mercury process is to scrap from products containing mercury already. Mercury is traditionally produced in Spain and Italy.


 * Mercury Economy Risks**

Mercury is often used to make paint to keep mold from growing, batteries to help currents flow, and more effects. The benefits of mercury in thermometers and switches allow the machines to function properly. When the material works well, people want to buy items with the well-working mercury. It allows the economy to gain more money and increase their finances for more devices that are exactly like that.


 * Mercury Health Risks**

Mercury could interfere with the body’s system most effectively if it goes inside the body. The mercury could decline blood concentrations. It also does some harm in the kidneys. Peak urine mercury levels could stray behind peak blood levels for a time ranging from days to weeks. Lung injury is also a result of the mercury. There are also conditions altering behavior that are caused by mercury. Some observations showed that mercury causes an increase in autism. Some believe that mercury is contained in a specific vaccine and implants autism into them. So, the mercury was removed in child vaccines but in California, a rise of an autism rate occurs.


 * Mercury Environment Risks**

There was a problem of atmospheric mercury deposited at the Upper Fremont Glacier in Wyoming. It is possible for it to be considered natural, but different sources have different results. A majority is caused from volcanoes. But the other half is the fault from combusting stationary, producing gold, non-ferrous metal, cement, pig iron, steel, caustic soda, and even mercury itself. Especially in batteries. It’s also from disposing waste in various forms.

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