CHEMICAL CONTROL OF SNOW MOULD OF GRASSES AND ALFALFA IN ALBERTA

1961 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 744-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Lebeau ◽  
M. W. Cormack ◽  
E. W. B. Ward

Chemical tests for control of snow mould of turf grass and alfalfa were conducted at Edmonton from 1945 to 1957. Of a number of chemicals tested, inorganic mercury salts provided the best control. Mercuric chloride was more effective than mercurous chloride for treating alfalfa but no difference in control was observed from the two chemicals on turf grass. Sodium tetraborate sprays applied to the foliage of alfalfa in early fall gave remarkable control of the disease but are not recommended because of the low margin of safety from boron injury.

1999 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-248
Author(s):  
Komla Oscar Awitor ◽  
Laurent Bernard ◽  
Olivier Bonnin ◽  
Bernard Coupat ◽  
Jean Paul Fournier ◽  
...  

Mercurous chloride (Hg2Cl2), or calomel, was prepared by direct synthesis from commercial mercury and mercuric chloride. The mercuric chloride mass fraction in the synthesized material is particularly small. The mercurous chloride vapor pressure was measured between 353 and 453 K by the Knudsen cell method. In order to obtain the mercurous chloride vapor pressure, we took into account the dissociation in the vapor phase into mercury and mercuric chloride. Our results are compared with those in the literature.Key words: mercurous chloride, calomel, vapor pressure, mass spectrometry, Knudsen cell.


1964 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 575-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Kum-Tatt ◽  
P C Leong

Abstract A simple method for the determination of ascorbic acid in urine was developed. The method is based on the quantitative reduction of mercuric chloride to mercurous chloride at pH 3.5-5.0. The insoluble mercurous chloride was separated by centrifugation, dissolved in excess standard iodine-potassium iodide solution and back-titrated with standard sodium thiosulphate. The method has precision, and as little as 1.0 mg. of ascorbic acid per 100 ml. of urine can be determined with an accuracy of ± 3%. Common substances found in urine do not interfere.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shenghe Chang ◽  
Zhengjing Wu ◽  
Wei Sun ◽  
Haiyan Shu

To remove organic and inorganic mercury from wastewater, an engineered bacterial strain, BL21-7, was constructed that contained the artificial operon P16S-g10-merT-merP-merB1-merB2-ppk-rpsT. For BL21-7, the minimum inhibitory concentrations of mercuric chloride, methylmercury chloride and phenylmercury chloride in Luria-Bertani (LB) medium were 100 µmol/L, 60 µmol/L and 80 µmol/L, respectively. After being cultured in three media (liquid LB containing 80 µmol/L mercuric chloride, 40 µmol/L methylmercury chloride or 60 µmol/L phenylmercury chloride) for 72 h, the engineered bacteria accumulated up to 70.5 ± 1.5 µmol/L, 33.5 ± 3.2 µmol/L and 45.3 ± 3.7 µmol/L of mercury, respectively. In the presence of 10 µmol/L Cd2+, 10 µmol/L Pb2+ or 10 µmol/L Cu2+, the accumulation of mercurial derivatives by BL21-7 was not affected. BL21-7 could accumulate mercury well in media with pH values ranging from 5 to 8 and it could work well at temperatures from 25 °C to 37 °C. After BL21-7 was added to wastewater and cultured for 24 h, approximately 43.7% of the Hg in the wastewater was removed.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Heath ◽  
Y. Abdelmageed ◽  
Tim D. Braden ◽  
Hari O. Goyal

Although male infertility is well researched, the effects of inorganic mercury on male reproduction and fertility are less well known. Studies pertaining to mercury and male fertility identified reduced concentration of testosterone in the serum of male workers, a toxic influence on fertility of organic mercury compounds within concentrations at the workplace, and increased days to pregnancy. We evaluated the effect of chronic mercuric chloride (HgCl2) exposure in male rats on reproductive endpoints. Thirty-day old male Sprague Dawley rats (n=31) were exposed to 0.0, 1.0, or 2.0 mg/kg/day of HgCl2via gavage. After 60 days exposure, they were housed with nonexposed females for 21 days. A survivor analysis revealed the exposed animals took longer to impregnate the females and had a lower rate of impregnation. Further statistical analysis revealed a lower correlation between testicular testosterone levels and days to impregnate, and also lower sperm counts in the epididymis head and body of the exposed males. The results indicate that HgCl2exposure had significant adverse effects on male rat reproduction endpoints including fertility at a dose that was not clinically toxic.


2004 ◽  
Vol 78 (10) ◽  
pp. 575-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Bonacker ◽  
Thomas Stoiber ◽  
Minsheng Wang ◽  
Konrad J. B�hm ◽  
Irina Prots ◽  
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