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Why were the effects of mercury poisoning completely different in Europe than in Japan?

>> No.15389095

>>15387016
In Japan the Mercury was mixed with Cadmium

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>>15387016
In europe & USA mercury was used as calomel and in medicine.

In Japan it was a mercury spilling by a chemical plant which lead to the miamata disease.
God knows what type of chemicals they mixed with the mercury.
Chisso Corporation was it.

Also allegedly it was not only methylmercury, but also dimethylmercury that was spilled into the ocean.

But the effects are the same regardless.yet in different intensities, it is a neurological poison.

And this is downplayed a lot.
See Mad Hatter disease.
It causes lesions, and turns people retarded and deperessed and psychotic.

>> No.15391311

>>15389506

Bingo. Also what is acute and what is chronic form.