Download or read book Mercury in the Ecosystem written by S. Mitra and published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive treatise on the environmental dispersion of mercury emphasizes the importance of "mercury-consciousness" in the present-day world, where rapidly expanding metallurgical, chemical, and other industrial developments are causing widespread contamination of the atmosphere, soil, and water by this metal and its toxic organic derivatives.