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Wikipedia states her blood mercury level at 4 mg/L with 0.2mg/L in the urine (i.e. getting excreted at a decent rate) five months after the alleged incident. I
by jojobas 4y ago
Wikipedia states her blood mercury level at 4 mg/L with 0.2mg/L in the urine (i.e. getting excreted at a decent rate) five months after the alleged incident.
Ignoring exponential decay, in five months at one liter a day she would have shed 30mg (so actual numbers were way higher).
Is it a typo/error or does this actually mean she was killed by way more mercury than a few drops through the glove?
- Gordonjcp 4y agoThe actual amount was was probably in the tens or so of milligrams. "A milligram" is a slightly hyperbolic way of saying "a very small amount", down in the small-fractions-of-a-gram level. I forget that not everyone on the Internet is aware of English idiom.
- jojobas 4y agoThe numbers point to more like a gram.