airborne mercury造句

• Her hospital room was checked for airborne mercury from her breath.
• But he said he did not think the airborne mercury would have harmed local people.
• Eventually, the airborne mercury finds its way into lakes, rivers, and oceans, where it is consumed by aquatic life.
• An example of such regulation in the USA is the " EPA is implementing policies to reduce airborne mercury emissions.
• Activists say the new report, still in draft form, could make airborne mercury the acid rain issue of the 1990s.
• They also say the dangers of airborne mercury should have led the company to use the equipment in any case.
• But even with the uncertainties, Frederick says his team's findings are significant for what they say about the movement of airborne mercury.
• Instead, State Line's operations were grandfathered, giving the plant the right to vent nitrogen oxides, airborne mercury, and sulphur dioxide into the air.
• The EPA reported last year that power plants are the biggest emitters of airborne mercury, accounting for about a third of all mercury releases.
• Federal researchers have provided compelling evidence that airborne mercury from smokestacks eventually works its way into even the most pristine and isolated aquatic environments.
• The country's coal-fired power plants are the biggest source of airborne mercury, a toxic pollutant that threatens human health after it enters the food chain, usually through fish.
• Among other things, the review found that " upset events " dumped cyanide-laced water into Peruvian streams and released airborne mercury from a mine in Indonesia, Newmont's Baker said.
• A mercury vacuum cleaner should be designed to prevent generation of airborne mercury typically through the use of an activated carbon charcoal filter in addition to any particulate filters.
• Acidic soil, or acidity that comes from sulfur dioxide emissions and acid rain, is said to contribute to the creation of methyl mercury in water when airborne mercury is introduced.
• Experts consulted on the emissions said they probably posed greater risk to the mine's workers than to the villagers, but agreed that airborne mercury was the mining by-product's most toxic form.
• YOUNG-COLUMN _ WACO, Texas _ Analysis shows airborne mercury poisoning is finding its way into fish and who knows where else . ( John Young is opinion page editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald ) MOVED.
• Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, airborne mercury and urban sprawl are threatening the health of the Great Lakes and millions of people who live around them, a report Monday to the Canadian and U . S . governments concluded.
• Publicity about mercury contamination not only threatens the multibillion-dollar seafood and recreational fishing industries, he said, it also raises concerns about the primary source of airborne mercury : the coal-fired power plants that supply much of the nation's electricity.
• An American toxicologist, Joe Rodricks, whom Newmont recommended as a mercury specialist, said he had been told by the company that when the scrubber was in operation, emissions at the Indonesian mine met the standards for airborne mercury in Nevada.
• The Martin Lake, Big Brown, and Monticello plants rank first, third, and fourth, respectively, in airborne mercury pollution in the United States according to company reports submitted to the EPA . Such high levels of mercury pollution have drawn criticism for their harmful effects on child development.