I don't want to know what your explosion of fishy goo tastes like.
It was very succulent, soft but firm, had a luxurious texture to it, better than my usual fish dishes
My salmon exploded
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It was very succulent, soft but firm, had a luxurious texture to it, better than my usual fish dishes
My "joke" has been ruined by you trying to show off that you know about things in the school Biology and Chemistry syallabi.
That's on the biology syllabus
How was what you said a joke? It failed.
That's on the biology syllabus
How was what you said a joke? It failed.
I think he was getting at mercury fulminate, you really need to brush up on your chemistry if the best you can come up with is methyl mercury
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You should have wrapped it in aluminium foil
I think he was getting at mercury fulminate, you really need to brush up on your chemistry if the best you can come up with is methyl mercury
I'm revising biology today- hence why it's in my head
I was referring to Minnimata disease in fish, which comes from methyl mercury poisoning, but you already knew that if you took A2 level biology.I'm revising biology today- hence why it's in my head
Yeah but mercury poisoning has nothing to do with explosions
Yeah but mercury poisoning has nothing to do with explosions
Well he said mercury in fish, and that's my standard example I use for exam answers for bioaccumulation.
That said salmon is farmed anyway, it isn't a top predator like tuna etc. But I just thought of it so I posted
I'm revising biology today- hence why it's in my head
Lies I done A2 Biology and we never learnt about poisoned fish, I feel robbed
Lies I done A2 Biology and we never learnt about poisoned fish, I feel robbed
It's an example of bioaccumulation up food chains. Mercury gets into plankton, and moves up through the food chain as methylmercury. It isn't removed by the body, as there are no enzymes for that function, so it's present in ever higher concentrations higher up the food chain. Near the top of the food chains (tuna and other large predators- you're looking at the 6th trophic level) the concentration is high enough for it to be fatal. The disease it causes is known as Minnimata disease because it was investigated/happened in the Bay of Minnimata, which I think is off the coast of Japan.
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oh metal doesn't explode it just sparks, you should have gone with the fulminate
And it wouldn't be found as unbonded mercury in salmon. In fact it probably wouldn't be found at all, because salamon havn't been eating fish, they've been eating whatever the farm feeds them on.
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I don't think I mentioned anything about what A levels I take or what university I applied to.
I was just discussing mercury with Tefal- who is doing a chemistry degree, and you, who was talking some rubbish- there isn't any mercury in salamon, and if there was it still wouldn't make it explode, as Tefal said it wouldn't even make it spark. If it was intended as a joke, it failed badly, because it wasn't funny.
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