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Something Fishy - Bioaccumulation of Mercury

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Young scholars explore the dangers of eating high levels of mercury and how small amounts of mercury in water accumulate in greater quantities in organisms higher in the food chain. They list the health of effects of high levels of mercury on humans.

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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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3 days

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