occupational exposure to elemental mercury vapor usually occurs through inhalation during its utilizations. this leads to a variety of adverse health effects. in some islamic cities, this type of poisoning may occur during gilding of shrines using elemental mercury with gold. herein, we report on three male patients aged 20–53 years, who were diagnosed with occupational metallic mercury poisoni...

Liquid metals such as gallium and related alloys are promising as hydrogenand energy-storage materials [1], for battery electrodes [2], in mercury-free thermometry [3], as plasmonic coupling materials [4], in electrical switches [5], as conductors in ultra-stretchable wires [6], and as catalysts for the growth of nanowires [7–8], and graphene [9–10]. This is largely due to their low vapor press...

The growth and collapse of laser-induced vapor cavities inside axisymmetric free-falling liquid water jets have been studied. Bubbles of different size are generated at various distances from the jet axis and the effects on the jet interface are recorded by means of ultrafast cinematography. The configuration is characterized by two dimensionless parameters: the bubble to jet diameter ratio and...

Gallium and several of its alloys are liquid metals at or near room temperature. Gallium has low toxicity, essentially no vapor pressure, and a low viscosity. Despite these desirable properties, applications calling for liquid metal often use toxic mercury because gallium forms a thin oxide layer on its surface. The oxide interferes with electrochemical measurements, alters the physicochemical ...

When in the presence of liquid metal environments, structural materials can potentially lose the ability to deform and plastically flow. In the case of a ductile material, the result of this reduction in flow ability is a transition from ductile to brittle behavior, resulting in a brittle-like failure. This phenomenon is known as liquid metal embrittlement (LME) and is a subset of the more comm...

Mercury is present in the world in very small amounts, but it has played a very important role in the development of alchemy, extraction of gold and silver, in the chloro-alkali industry, batteries, construction of scientific instruments, treatment of illnesses, and pest control. Increasing environmental concerns are leading to a significant reduction in annual production and to its substitutio...

We present a procedure to perform and interpret pull-off force measurements during the jump-off-contact process between a liquid drop and rough surfaces using a conventional atomic force microscope. In this method, a micrometric liquid mercury drop is attached to an AFM tipless cantilever to measure the force required to pull this drop off a rough surface. We test the method with two surfaces: ...

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Abstract This study was designed to evaluate the use of mercury therapy in Italian noble classes Renaissance through toxicological analysis hair content. Mercury has stability and a long half-life hair, representing great resource not only for forensic but also archaeological research on mercurial exposure past populations. The fourteen mummified individuals Aragon vice-royal court Naples, buri...