The biological half-life of inorganic mercury in the Dungeness crab Cancer magister Dana

The biological half-life of inorganic mercury in the Dungeness crab, Cancer magister Dana, was determined experimentally to be about 25 days. Crabs were exposed to mercury solutions, sacrificed after varying periods of time, and mercury determinations of whole body homogenates made with an atomic ab...

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Main Author: Sloan, John Peter
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18775