• 제목/요약/키워드: liquid mercury

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대도시지역 일부 초등학생의 치과용 아말감 충전치아와 요중 수은농도의 관련성 (The Relationship between Dental Amalgam Fillings and Urinary Mercury Concentration among Elementary School Children in a Metropolitan Area)

  • 정윤숙;사공준;안서영;이영은;송근배;최연희
    • 치위생과학회지
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    • 제12권3호
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    • pp.253-258
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    • 2012
  • 치과용 아말감은 수은, 구리, 아연, 은과 같은 여러 가지 금속으로 이루어진 합금으로 구성되었다. 아말감은 내구성과 진료 시 사용의 편리성과 경제적인 이유로 치과영역에서 가장 흔히 사용되고 효과적인 수복물질로 이용되었다. 하지만 수복물질로서의 대중성과 긴 역사에도 불구하고 아말감에 포함된 수은의 노출로부터 가져올 수 있는 잠재적 부작용 또는 합병증에 대한 염려로 논란이 계속되고 있다. 특히 어린이들의 경우 수은의 독성에 대한 위험성이 더 높기 때문에 우리는 어린이에게서 치과용 아말감과 요중 수은농도의 관련성에 대하여 알아보고자 하였다. 대도시 지역 내 두 개 초등학교 1~4학년 재학생을 대상으로 하여 구강검진과 설문조사를 시행하였으며, 구강검진 당일 채취한 소변시료를 이용하여 요중 수은농도를 분석하였다. 결과는 구강 내 아말감 충전치아가 없는 아동과 비교 했을 때 79개 이상, 10개 이상 갖는 아동의 요중 수은농도가 높아지는 상관관계가 나타났다. 결론적으로 어린이의 구강 내 아말감 충전치면수와 요중 수은농도는 관련성이 있는 것으로 사료된다.

Expression and Purification of Transmembrane Protein MerE from Mercury-Resistant Bacillus cereus

  • Amin, Aatif;Sarwar, Arslan;Saleem, Mushtaq A.;Latif, Zakia;Opella, Stanley J.
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • 제29권2호
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    • pp.274-282
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    • 2019
  • Mercury-resistant ($Hg^R$) bacteria were isolated from heavy metal polluted wastewater and soil collected near to tanneries of district Kasur, Pakistan. Bacterial isolates AZ-1, AZ-2 and AZ-3 showed resistance up to $40{\mu}g/ml$ against mercuric chloride ($HgCl_2$). 16S rDNA ribotyping and phylogenetic analysis were performed for the characterization of selected isolates as Bacillus sp. AZ-1 (KT270477), Bacillus cereus AZ-2 (KT270478) and Bacillus cereus AZ-3 (KT270479). Phylogenetic relationship on the basis of merA nucleotide sequence confirmed 51-100% homology with the corresponding region of the merA gene of already reported mercury-resistant Gram-positive bacteria. The merE gene involved in the transportation of elemental mercury ($Hg^0$) via cell membrane was cloned for the first time into pHLV vector and transformed in overexpressed C43(DE3) E. coli cells. The recombinant plasmid (pHLMerE) was expressed and the native MerE protein was obtained after thrombin cleavage by size exclusion chromatography (SEC). The purification of fusion/recombinant and native protein MerE by Ni-NTA column, dialysis and fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC/SEC) involved unfolding/refolding techniques. A small-scale reservoir of wastewater containing $30{\mu}g/ml$ of $HgCl_2$ was designed to check the detoxification ability of selected strains. It resulted in 83% detoxification of mercury by B. cereus AZ-2 and B. cereus AZ-3, and 76% detoxification by Bacillus sp. AZ-1 respectively (p < 0.05).

Study on Charge Transport in Nanoscale Organic Monolayers for Molecular Electronics Using Liquid Phase Electrodes

  • Hwang, Jin-Ha
    • 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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    • 제12권3호
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    • pp.235-241
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    • 2005
  • Incorporation of solid electrodes frequently involves plasma-based processing. The effect of plasma can influence the physical characteristics, depending on the magnitude in plasma. The undesired feature of plasma-induced damage should be prevented in characterizing the ultra-thin materials, such as ultra-thin films and organic monolayers. The current work at first proves the applicability of a liquid phase electrode in the electrical/dielectric properties through comparative work using Al and Hg on ultrathin $Al_2O_3$ films deposited through atomic layer deposition at low temperature: Two types of metals such as Aluminum (Al) and mercury (Hg) were used as electrodes in $Al_2O_3$ thin films in order to investigate the effect of electrode preparation on the current-voltage characteristics and impedance features as a function of thickness in $Al_2O_3$ film thickness. The success of Hg in $Al_2O_3$ thin films is applied to the AC and DC characterization of the organic monolayers obtained using the Langmuir-Blodgett method. From the DC current-voltage characteristics, the diode-like response is found to originate from the bulk response of the organic materials, evidenced by the fact and the capacitance is inversely related to the absolute thickness of organic layers.

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LCD 백라이트용 Xe계 플라즈마 평판 램프의 구동 전압 Pulse의 조건에 따른 방전 특성 연구 (Discharge Characteristics of Xe Plasma Flat Lamp for LCD Backlight According to Operating Voltage Pulse)

  • 권은미;김혁환;이원종
    • 한국재료학회지
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    • 제13권4호
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    • pp.271-278
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    • 2003
  • Conventional backlight for liquid crystal display (LCD) uses mercury which leads to environmental pollution. In this study, characteristics of AC coplanar type mercury-free plasma flat lamp have been studied. Pollution-free Xe-He is adopted as a discharge gas system. Since the Xe gas has a lower efficiency in generating vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) than mercury, the improvement of luminance and luminous efficiency in the Xe gas system is very important. The electrode, dielectric, and phosphor layers constituting lamp are formed on the bottom glass by the screen printing method. The effects of pulse shape, on-time, and pulse frequency on the luminance and luminous efficiency have been examined. For Xe(5%)-He gas, the lamp exhibits higher efficiency with sharper pulse shape, higher peak voltage, and shorter pulse on-time (up to 2 $\mu\textrm{s}$). Higher efficiency and lower consumption of power were obtained at 30 kHz than at 60 kHz. The collision of ion to bottom electrodes is a dominant factor to raise the lamp temperature. Therefore the high voltage and low current discharge system is necessary for reduction of the lamp temperature as well as for enhancement of the luminous efficiency.

Simultaneous Determination of Tin, Nickel, Lead, Cadmium and Mercury in Cigarette Material by Solid Phase Extraction and HPLC

  • Hu, Qun;Yang, Guangyu;Ma, Jing;Liu, Jikai
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제24권10호
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    • pp.1433-1436
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    • 2003
  • A new method for the simultaneous determination of heavy metal ions in cigarette material by microwave digestion and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) has been developed. The cigarette material was digested by microwave digestion. Lead, cadmium, mercury, nickel and tin ions in the digested samples were pre-column derivatized with tetra-(2-chlorophenyl)-porphyrin ($T_2$-CPP) to form color chelates, which were then enriched by solid phase extraction with a $C_{18}$ cartridge. The chelates were separated on a Waters Xterra$^{TM}RP_{18}$ column by gradient elution with methanol (containing 0.05 mol/L pyrrolidine-aceticacid buffer salt, pH = 10.0) and acetone (containin0.05 mol/L pyrrolidine-acetic acid buffer salt, pH = 10.0)as mobile phase at a flow rate of 0.5mL/min and analyzed with a photodiode array detector from 350-600 nm. The detection limits of lead, cadmium, mercury, nickel and tin were 4,3,3,8 and 5 ng/L, respectively, in the original samples. This method was afforded good results.

액상수은 제어를 위한 다공성 탄소입자 제조에 관한 연구 (Synthesis of Porous Carbon Particles for the Absorption of Mercury)

  • 이정민;강신재;박수진
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국신재생에너지학회 2009년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.305-305
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    • 2009
  • The carbon nano-structured materials could be applied to the fields of advanced fillers, templates, electrode materials, sensor, storage, and absorption materials. The polyacrylonitrile (PAN) based carbon nano-particles provide the remarkable properties of high specific surface area, large pore volume, chemical inertness, and good mechanical stability. In this study, well-defined carbon nano-particles were obtained through pyrolysis of polyacrylonitrile based particles. The precursor nano-particles were prepared by modified aqueous dispersion polymerization using hydrophilic poly(vinyl alcohol) in a water/ N,N-dimethylformamide mixture media. Synthesized precursor nanoparticles have relatively monodisperse particles ranging 80 ~ 250nm. Stable spherical particles are obtained without coagulum or secondary particles in our system. The characteristic of the carbon nanoparticles were investigated in terms of surface area, morphology, and size distribution.

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Study on Determination of Seven Transition Metal Ions in Water and Food by Microcolumn High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

  • Hu, Qiufen;Yang, Guangyu;Li, Haitao;Tai, Xi;Yin, Jiayuan
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제25권5호
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    • pp.694-698
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    • 2004
  • A new method for the simultaneous determination of seven transition metal ions in water and food by microcolumn high-performance liquid chromatography has been developed. The lead, cadmium, mercury, nickel, cobalt, silver and tin ions were pre-column derivatized with tetra-(4-aminophenyl)-porphyrin ($T_4$-APP) to form the colored chelates which were then enriched by solid phase extraction with $C_{18}$ cartridge. The enrichment factor of 50 was achieved by eluted the retained chelates from the cartridge with tetrahydrofuran (THF). The chelates were separated on a ZORBAX Stable Bound microcolumn ($2.0{\times}50\;mm,\;1.8\;{\mu}m$)with methanol-tetrahydrofuran (95 : 5, v/v, containing 0.05 mol/L pyrrolidine-acetic acid buffer salt, pH = 10.0) as mobile phase at a flow rate of 0.5 mL/min and detected with a photodiode array detector from 350-600 nm. The seven chelates were separated completely within 2.0 min. The detection limits of lead, cadmium, mercury, nickel, cobalt, silver and tin are 4 ng/L, 3 ng/L, 6 ng/L, 5 ng/L, 5 ng/L, 6 ng/L, 4 ng/L respectively in the original samples. This method was applied to the determination of the seven transition metal in water and food samples with good results.

구리박막에서 수은 클러스터의 충돌거동에 대한 분자동역학적 연구 (Molecular Dynamics Study on Collision Behaviors of Cluster of Mercury on Thin-Film of Copper)

  • 정흥철;고선미;최경민;김덕줄
    • 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회B
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    • pp.2678-2683
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    • 2007
  • The interaction between metal molecules and liquid metal molecules was modeled in the molecular scale and simulated by the molecular dynamics method in order to understand behaviors of the cluster on metallic surface in collision process. Lennard-Jones potential had been used as intermolecular potential, and only attraction 때 d repulsion had been used for the behavior of the cluster on the metal surface. As results, the behavior of the cluster was so much influenced by the cluster of liquid metal temperature and function of molecules forces, such as attraction and repulsion, in the collision progress. These results of simulation will be the foundation for the micro fabrication manufacturing by using spray application technology.

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액체 요오드의 표면장력 (The Surface Tension of Liquid Iodine)

  • 김성완;장세헌
    • 대한화학회지
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    • 제9권2호
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    • pp.110-112
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    • 1965
  • 액체 요오드의 표면장력을 측정하기 위하여 새로운 장치를 고안하고 differential capillary rise method를 써서 $125.0^{\circ}C,\;135.0^{\circ}C,\;145.0{\circ}C$$155.0^{\circ}C$ 에서 각각 36.88, 35.87, 34.83 및 34.04 dye/cm의 값들을 얻었다. 이 측정된 값들로부터 Eotvos 상수를 구해본 결과 각 온도에서 비슷한 값을 보여주고 있음을 알았다.

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LCD-백라이트용 형광램프의 수은량 (Mercury Quantity in a Fluorescent Lamp for a Backlight of LCD-TVs)

  • 봉재환;김윤중;황하청;김동준;정종문;김정현;구제환;조광섭
    • 한국진공학회지
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    • 제17권6호
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    • pp.495-500
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    • 2008
  • Ne+Ar의 혼합 기체와 수은이 주입된 세관 형광램프에서 플라즈마의 형성에 필요한 기체 수은의 량을 계산하였다. 전자($kT_e{\sim}1\;eV$)와 중성 원자(Ne, Ar, Hg)들과의 충돌에 의한 각 원자들의 이온화를 계산하여, 양광주 플라즈마의 밀도($n_o{\sim}10^{17}m^{-3}$)를 생성하는 조건으로부터 기체 수은 원자의 밀도 $3.43{\times}10^{22}m^{-3}$을 얻었다. $32{\sim}42$ 인치 LCD-TV용 액정표시장치에 사용되는 직경이 4 mm인 형광램프의 혼합 기체 Ne(95%)+Ar(5%) 50 Torr에 대하여, 글로우 방전에 필요한 기체 수은의 량은 $0.02{\sim}0.08\;mg$으로 계산되었다.