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    Saturn

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    Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the most distant that can be seen with the naked eye. Saturn is the second largest planet and is best known for its fabulous ring system that was first observed in 1610 by the astronomer Galileo Galilei. Saturn is a gas giant and is composed of similar gasses including hydrogen, helium and methane. Saturn can be seen with the naked eye. It is the fifth brightest object in the solar system.Saturn was known to the ancients, including the Babylonians…

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    Ray Bradbury's story “All Summer in a day”, is about people who lives on the planet venus and it rains all of the time. Margot lived on earth but just recently arrived on mars. She remembers there being sun when she lived on earth and now she is not used to it always raining with no sunshine. She starts to miss the sunshine and how warm it was earth. The other children on Venus are jealous and get mad that she remembers and even got to see the sun. A lesson in this story is sometime when people…

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    Can you imagine living on a planet with endless rain and no sun? The story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury is an interesting story with many different interpretations and morals. Ray Bradbury writes stories, mostly about science-fiction and his stories always have deep morals. The story is about a girl named Margot, who suffers from depression, lives on Venus, and gets bullied by her classmates because they are jealous that she has experienced the sun before and they haven’t. Because the…

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    “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction story about a girl who struggles with living on Venus and is different from everyone else. In the beginning, all the kids on Venus were pressed against the window. The kids are waiting for the sun to come out. Soon, the kids go and put Margot into a closet. The kids on Venus finally get to see the sun. In the end, a girl starts crying because it starts raining. Then finally the kids on Venus come inside and then they remember Margot in…

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    The chemical Mercury, symbolized as Hg, is an element most prominently found as a solid metal throughout Earth’s surface. It is a naturally occurring element found in Earth’s soil, water and air. To name a few examples of how Mercury is created, there are forest fires and volcanic eruptions whose combustion creates Mercury. In addition, humans also create Mercury through incinerators used in power plants. Mercury is known to be very poisonous to humans and affects many organisms ranging from…

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    High Fructose Corn Syrup

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    that mercury is contaminated with HFCS is by the usage of caustic soda to produce it. Much of HFCS is produced using caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) which is produced by a mercury cell process. Additionally, the caustic soda is contaminated with roughly 0.2ppm-0.3ppm of mercury (Wallinga, Mottl, Yablon, & Sorensen, 2009). A pilot study was conducted by Dufault, et al. (2009) that analyzed the mercury content in HFCS from three different manufacturers. As much as 0.570 micrograms of mercury were…

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    World Health Organization, mercury and lead are two of the top hazardous chemicals of public health concern. Exposure to these toxicants results in serious damage in human bodies, especially young children. If human consume food or drinks that are contaminated with mercury or lead in their diet, they will cause neurological, physical, and behavioral effects, which are irreversible. The degree of severity depends on the amount of hazards in bodies (“Lead”, 2017 & “Mercury”, 2017). For example,…

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    The severity of Mercury exposure is linked to the dose that is being exposed, the age of the individual, the length and the route of the exposure (“Mercury and health” 2016). The mother who is previously exposed to a high level of Mercury can pass it on and affect the fetus during pregnancy causing impairments to the development of their brain and nervous system (“Mercury and health” 2016). It was reported that the fetus is five to ten times more sensitive to the toxicity of Mercury than the…

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    chemicals such as arsenic are toxic even in the smallest amounts. Mercury is a natural element that occurs throughout our environment and solar system. It has unique properties (i.e liquid metal at room temperature) and can be found in very small concentrations in many rocks and is the main component of the mineral cinnabar. Natural background levels can be detected in soils, living organisms, air, and water around the world. Mercury is still used today in a wide variety of products and…

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    Prenatal Mercury Exposure

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    neurotransmitter in brain. Recent study suggests that prenatal mercury exposure is associated with increased risk for ADHD. Methylmercury has been reported in many studies that they produce mutagenic and carcinogenic effects as well. Methyl mercury produced renal carcinomas in mice, after had given 15 mg/kg in their diets for one year. Several substances have been found that has ability to modify the effect of the chronic toxicity of methyl mercury as selenium, which has antagonist effect and…

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