Guest guest Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 The type of mercury in this story is di-methyl mercury C2H6Hg. The type of mercury in vaccines is ethyl mercury C2H5Hg. They are both synthetic organic mercury compounds. It's hard to imagine any two compounds that could be more similiar than these two. > > http://www.udel.edu/OHS/dartmouth/drtmtharticle.html > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 To Those Intertested In This Matter, Factually, the two mercury compounds are a) dimethylmercury in the article and, in vaccines, Thimerosal (ethylmecurithiosalicylate), which are very different compounds. Moreover, the mercury-containing Thimerosal hydrolysis product that forms in aqueous environments is ethylmecurihydroxide, which is still very different from dimethylmercury in many respects. The compound " ethylmercury " would, like " methylmercury, " actually be diethylmercury (C4H10Hg, H5C2-Hg-C2H5 or H3C-H2C-Hg-CH2-CH3) but this compound, diethylmercury, is not used in the manufacture of any vaccine. [structurally, dimethylmercury, the cited article's " methylmercury " is, as stated, C2H6Hg (CH3-Hg-CH3 or H3C-Hg-CH3). However, the " methylmercury " in fish is mostly H3C-Hg-R where R is mainly some sulfur- containing amino acid (usually cysteine). Furthermore, the " methylmercury " compound used in many animal studies is methylmercuri- hydroxide (H3C-Hg-OH).] Dimethylmercury is a colorless, volatile, toxic liquid, which easily ignites in the presence of a spark, and is soluble in ether and ethanol, but is not soluble (insoluble) in water. Thimerosal is a toxic, cream-colored, crystalline powder (solid), which is stable in air at room temperature but decomposes in sunlight, and is insoluble in ether, but soluble in ethanol and very soluble in in water. In the human body, both are highly toxic systemic poisons that should NOT be added to any drug product or used in any drug-product manufacturing process UNLESS, at the level present, appropriate toxicity studies are performed and, with a safety margin of at least 1000, found not to be toxic to those who may susceptible to mercury poisoning. [Note: Under this safety standard, considering the literature in vivo studies that have established toxicity at levels below 0.00001%, dilution in a " 2 kg " baby's body and a 0.25-mL dose, the safe level of Thimerosal in a vaccine for infants would be on the order of 0.0001% as compared to the current " allowed " (without proof of safety) level of up to 0.01%.] Hopefully, this information should set the record straight in this matter. Respectfully, Dr. King http://www.dr-king.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ At 18:00 1/6/06 -0000, mwagnit wrote: > >The type of mercury in this story is >di-methyl mercury C2H6Hg. The >type of mercury in vaccines is ethyl >mercury C2H5Hg. They are both >synthetic organic mercury compounds. >It's hard to imagine any two compounds >that could be more similiar than these >two. > > > >> >> http://www.udel.edu/OHS/dartmouth/drtmtharticle.html >> > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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