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- noun chemistry A
salt orester of ethylmercurithiosalicylic acid.
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Many vaccines, especially multi-dose vaccines that are made more cheaply for sale to the Third World, contain something called Thimerosal (Thiomersol in the EU), a compound (sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate), containing some 50% mercury, used as a preservative.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED poorrichard 2010
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Confounding associations and concerns with various stages of brain development related to cumulative early life exposure to mercury include the following sources of mercury: maternal fish consumption during pregnancy, the thimerosal (sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate, approximately 49% mercury weight) content of certain vaccines and dental amalgam.
Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34; 2010
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Likewise the form of Mercuric compound used in Thimerosol (sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate) is very different to those of its element.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local guadaloupi 2009
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Thiomersal (INN) (C9H9HgNaO2S), or sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate, commonly known in the United States as thimerosal, is an organomercury compound (approximately 49\% mercury by weight) used as an antiseptic and antifungal agent.
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