Difference between thimerosal and mercury
Definitions
noun
- a light-colored crystalline powder (trade name Merthiolate) used as a surgical antiseptic
Examples
Steps were rapidly taken to remove thimerosal from vaccines by switching to single-dose vials that did not require any preservative.
Will the single-dose injectable units of H1N1 2009 vaccine that do NOT contain thimerosal (mercury) be available at the same time as the multi-dose vials that do contain it?
Neither Khalif nor his wife (who was given a thimerosal-containing flu shot while pregnant, even though the label instructed the doctor to administer the shot during pregnancy, "only when medically necessary"), had ever heard of autism until the day their son was diagnosed.
Definitions
noun
- a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
- temperature measured by a mercury thermometer
Examples
According to the EPA, fish at the top of the aquatic food chain bioaccumulate methylmercury to a level approximately 1 million to 10 million times greater than dissolved concentrations found in surrounding waters.
Just as the latter instrument indicates the pressure of the atmosphere above it, so the bathometer was intended to show the pull of the earth below it; and experiment proved, we believe, that for every 1,000 fathoms of sea-water below the ship, the total gravity of the mercury was reduced by 1/3200 part.
The mercury on the outside thermometer was stuck at 55 below zero.
