DETERMINATION OF MERCURY IN HAIR OF NORMAL PERSONS LIVING IN TAIPER CITY

• Main Authors: Quo-Cheng, Wang, 王國城
• Other Authors: Zhao-Qu, Ye
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1973
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jn7uch

碩士 === 中央警察大學 === 警政研究所 === 62 === The environmental pollution situation on island of Taiwan, the Republic of China, has attracted wide attention and extensive studies on this important socio-economic Problem. The Pollution is chiefly due to the expansion and urbanization of the population, the rapid progress of industries, the increased use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and the rapid acceleration of Energy Consumption are also contributing to environment pollution. In General, mercury is one of the most toxic of heavy metals. Even small amounts of orgonic mercury compounds can produce mercury intoxication when inhaled by man. Mercury's toxicity causes damage in the human body called poisoning according to Forensic Medicine. Via the action of metabolism, we know there are few amount of mercury in human excretion. During the period from December 1973 through March 1974. I measured the amount of mercury in hairs of normal persons who live in Taipei City, by the Flameless Atomic Absorption Spectrop-Photometry. The results are as follows: The average value of mercury content from 79 different samples was 2.68+-0.25P.P.M. and that of male(42 Samples)was 2.36+0.79P.P.M., and that of female(37 Samples)was 3.04+0.46 P.P.M., only 8% of the samples showed higher mercury content than 5 P.P.M., My findings are that the above average value of mercury found on the hair of persons in Taipei City is normal in range compared with that of the mercury content found on the hair of people in some Japanese cities.