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- noun organic chemistry The
organometallic compound ofmercury (CH3)2Hg that is a dangerousneurotoxin
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Another organic mercury compound called dimethylmercury is also used in small amounts as a reference standard for some chemical tests.
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Another organic mercury compound called dimethylmercury is also used in small amounts as a reference standard for some chemical tests.
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Exposure to certain highly toxic compounds of mercury such as dimethylmercury can be fatal within hours or less.
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Only small amounts of methylmercury enter the bloodstream directly through the skin, but other forms of organic mercury (in particular dimethylmercury) can rapidly enter the body through the skin.
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For example, a resin is administered orally which binds with the dimethylmercury (which had been secreted in the bile), preventing reabsorption, and further toxicity.
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For the dimethylmercury that had landed on her glove had penetrated the latex and then her skin and was already beginning a slow, unseen journey into her blood and into her brain.
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The effects of the poison don't show until months after initial exposure. In 1996, a chemistry professor at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, spilled a drop or two of dimethylmercury on her gloved hand. The dimethylmercury passed through her latex glove. Symptoms of the poison appeared four months later. After ten months, she died.
February 27, 2015