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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Mercury minerals, Organomercury compounds, Cinnabar, Mercury(II) fulminate, Methylmercury, Thiomersal, Mercury(II) chloride, Mercury(I) chloride, Mercury cadmium telluride, Coloradoite, Vermilion, Mercury(II) thiocyanate, Clearcreekite, Mercury(II) cyanide, Mercury(II) oxide, Dimethylmercury, Mercury(II) bromide, Merbromin, Mercury telluride, Mercury polycations, Mosesite, Mercury sulfide, Mercury(II) acetate, Mercury(I) bromide, Mercury selenide, Mercury(I) fluoride, Corderoite, Coccinite, Mercury(II) nitrate, Mercury(I) nitrate, Mercury(II) iodide, Potassium tetraiodomercurate(II), Christite, Mercury(I) sulfate, Jones reductor, Mercury(IV) fluoride, Fettelite, Diphenylmercury, Mercury(I) iodide, Mercury(II) sulfate, Bis(trimethylsilyl)mercury, Blue pill, Livingstonite, Phenylmercury acetate, Mercuric amidochloride, Routhierite, 4-Chloromercuribenzoic acid, Moschellandsbergite, Tiemannite, Aktashite, Mercury(II) fluoride, Mersalyl acid, Phenylmercuric borate, Protiodide, Diethylmercury, Myrickite, Millon's reagent, Terlinguaite, Mercury zinc telluride, Meralluride, Mercury(II) hydroxide, Mercury hydride, Mercury(I) oxide, Kadyrelite. Excerpt: Methylmercury (sometimes methyl mercury) is an organometallic cation with the formula . It is a bioaccumulative environmental toxicant. "Methylmercury" is a shorthand for "monomethylmercury," and is more correctly "monomethylmercuric cation." It is composed of a methyl group (CH3-) bonded to a mercury atom; its chemical formula is CH3Hg (sometimes written as MeHg). As a positively charged ion it readily combines with anions such as chloride (Cl), hydroxide (OH) and nitrate (NO3). It also has very high affinity for sulfur-containing anions, particularly the thiol (-SH) groups on the amino acid cysteine and hence in proteins containing cysteine, forming a covalent bond. More tha...
