Mercury and Venus in alliance foster better communication skills and diplomacy while encouraging love, romance, and social charm. Check the evening twilight sky this week, looking out for Mercury as it rises over western landscape. Be careful that tall hills or houses do not obscure your view! Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun…
The NRDC app allows you to check sushi for mercury levels and other contaminants, as well as identify safe fish options to consume during pregnancy. Mercury can pass from mother to fetus during gestation or through breast milk and cause neurodevelopmental issues in young children, making it important to limit high mercury fish and increase…
Mercury may have a poor rep for being responsible for technology glitches, travel delays and communication breakdowns – but that doesn’t make everything bad! There is good news too! As Mercury orbits closer to the sun than Earth does, its path across the zodiac is much faster. Three or four times each year an optical…
Mercury is a toxic element with potentially grave health consequences. High exposure levels to mercury poison can damage infants and young children’s nervous systems, while methylmercury exposure could endanger developing babies during gestation and nursing mothers should take extra precaution to limit how much fish they eat while pregnant or nursing. Seer Fish Seer fish…
No one understands marine performance like your local Mercury authorised dealer. They employ factory-trained experts and master technicians ready to help maximize your time on the water. Replace your old outboard engine with a Mercury one and experience faster boating, enhanced fuel economy and superior handling. All 130 Bass Pro Shops/Cabela’s Boating Center locations feature…
Automobile designers of the 1950s drew inspiration from space travel for their designs. This resulted in cars featuring towering tail fins, rocket-inspired cockpits and unique features such as power-operated gullwing doors that made ingress and egress much simpler; some even featured scalloped trim pieces coated in gold anodizing to complete their space-age aesthetics. It’s a…
Thimerosal was used as a mercury-containing preservative in some vaccines until there were concerns that these vaccines may cause autism, prompting its removal from most children’s vaccinations by 2001. This study explored the relationship between copper, lead and mercury concentration in hair and nail samples from children with autism and controls. Results demonstrated no correlations….
Mercury oxide decomposes when exposed to heat, producing elemental mercury and liquid metal mercury in an orderly and balanced chemical reaction that was conducted by Antoine Lavoisier who studied chemical reactions as well as classifying substances into elements and compounds. Mercury(II) sulfide is a dense black or red crystalline solid used to produce zinc-mercuric oxide…
Mercury can enter the environment via volcanoes, burning coal, oil or trash burning or from mining and processing gold. Once released into the air it can come tumbling back down via rain or sleet and pollute soil and water supplies. BepiColombo was developed by the European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to explore…
