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 Translation for 'dimethylmercury' from English to Russian
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NOUN   dimethylmercury | -
хим.
диметилртуть {ж} [C2H6Hg, (CH3)2Hg]
dimethylmercury
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Translation for 'dimethylmercury' from English to Russian

dimethylmercury
диметилртуть {ж} [C2H6Hg, (CH3)2Hg]хим.
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Usage Examples English
  • Karen Wetterhahn was killed by mercury poisoning after a few drops of dimethylmercury landed on her glove during an experiment.
  • The case proved that the standard precautions at the time, all of which Wetterhahn had carefully followed, were inadequate for a "super-toxic" chemical like dimethylmercury.
  • Karen Wetterhahn, a professor of chemistry at Dartmouth College, died in 1997, ten months after spilling only a few drops of dimethylmercury onto her latex gloves.
  • After Karen Wetterhahn's death, Clarkson's lab analyzed the dimethylmercury levels that had been responsible for her death.
  • Examples of organic mercury compounds are dimethylmercury, phenylmercuric acetate, and methylmercuric chloride.

  • Dimethylmagnesium can also be prepared by combining dimethylmercury and magnesium.
  • , dimethylmercury and diethylmercury are the only significantly neurotoxic forms.
  • This chemical can cross the blood–brain barrier, causing permanent brain damage. It is, however, considerably less toxic than dimethylmercury.
  • German police – who noted a resemblance to the Markov case – analyzed the syringe which the victim had managed to take from the perpetrator, and found dimethylmercury; the reported cause of death was mercury poisoning.
  • Important organomercury compounds are the methylmercury(II) cation, CH3Hg+; ethylmercury(II) cation, C2H5Hg+; dimethylmercury, (CH3)2Hg, diethylmercury and merbromin ("Mercurochrome").

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