Example sentences for: methylmercury

How can you use “methylmercury” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Forty-one states have advisories warning the public to restrict eating fish from local waters due to methylmercury.

  • Additionally, some synergies have been observed between methylmercury and lake acidity - the more acidic, the greater the mercury concentration.

  • A recent report of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) concluded that while most Americans face a very low risk from methylmercury, children of women who consume large amounts of fish during pregnancy face a much higher risk.

  • Fetuses are particularly vulnerable to methylmercury because of their rapidly developing nervous systems.

  • The NAS study estimates as many as 60,000 children annually may develop neurological problems because of low-level methylmercury exposure through their mother prior to birth.


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