Methylmercury: Methylmercury is a generic name for an organomercurial cation comprising a mercury cation Hg2+ and one or more methyl CH3 anions. It is the most toxic organic form of mercury.
Some microbes can (in an anoxic situation) methylate mercury, while others (when the water or the contaminated substrate are oxygenated) can demethylate it, which explains why it is more present in lotic, lacustrine and sedimentary environments. . This is...
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