• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Apparently its also why fish are high in mercury because mercury in burnt coal eventually finds its way to the ocean.

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      12 hours ago

      It’s not even really an eventually, it’s about a direct as you get. It is exhausted into the sky, gets caught in the water cycle and rains back down to earth.

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      8 hours ago

      specifically tuna, its the bioaccumulation on the food web, the TUNA eats other animals that have mercury in it, that eats smaller animals that filter mercury, it piles up.