Your friend and enemy. A book about mercury and not only

The popular science publication is devoted to the amazing substance that everyone has encountered one way or another, but not everyone knows about many useful and dangerous properties.
On the example of mercury, one of the main inorganic ecotoxicants of our time, the author considers important medical and environmental problems of the world and country in particular. A significant place in the text is reserved rarely covered in the media science of toxicology, which, to a large extent determining the quality of our life.
The value of the material presented not only in the lighting of mercury as a substance that is very significant for human activity and the environment that is dangerous for humans, but also in the fact that the book sets out the results of the scientific research of the author himself, published earlier only in special scientific journals. The book is written in a living language, the factual presentation of the material is interspersed with instructive stories from life. The material is well triggered and each reader will find something interesting for himself, which he did not know before and what could be useful to him. The adherents of the historical and detective genre will be curious to find out about mercury as a criminal agent and poisoning with mercury of famous personalities.
The book is permeated by the author’s care for human health, preserving nature, the environmental well -being of the planet and will find readers among schoolchildren and pensioners, students, teachers and professionals of various branches of knowledge