Minamata disease as Japan's environmental disaster-such as the price to pay for getting too impatient for economic development but neglecting the protection of the environment.From 1932-1968, Chisso Corporation (Japan) use organic mercury as a catalyst to produce acetaldehyde, acetic acid and other plastics.Methyl mercury is poisonous, toxic that only plays few drops fall on the skin may lead to immediate death.In the production process, methyl mercury is produced and poured straight down the Bay of Minamata without going through any treatment.Mercury dispersed in water, cling to plankton and down the mud. Fish absorb oxygen in the water through the gills of fish, the accumulation of mercury in the body.When ingested contaminated fish that eventually, people eat will accumulate significant amounts of mercury in the body.
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