However, because Mercury has virtually no tilt to its axis, there are actually parts of the surface that never see sunlight at all.
Larger fish such as shark, king mackerel, swordfish, and tilefish tend to be highest in mercury because they eat smaller fish and consume the mercury in them as well.
"That's why we were so happy to be nominated for the Mercury, because we're album people I think, " said the band's keyboard player Gus Unger-Hamilton.
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Albacore tuna is higher in mercury than canned light tuna because canned tuna is largely younger, smaller fish that haven't absorbed as much mercury.
Photographing Mercury is challenging because of the planet's proximity to the Sun.
Mercury is particularly insidious because it stays afloat and it can be spread globally.
Because it is no secret that mercury is highly damaging to our health, particularly the health of children and developing fetuses.
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Outdoor cremations were banned in 1930, mainly because of fears that dental fillings containing mercury would release dangerous emissions into the atmosphere.
If they have gained mass it could be because the platinum based ingots have absorbed mercury from the atmosphere or hydrogen from the solvents used to clean the ingots.
The first pope to change his name did so in the Sixth Century because he was named after the Roman god Mercury, and he thought it inappropriate to carry that name as pope.
Opportunities to photograph Mercury from space are also limited because light sensitive equipment, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, are not allowed to look at objects close to the Sun, such as Mercury or Venus.
Ms. MAYNARD: It's kind of an interesting time because we're seeing some really old brands like Pontiac, Mercury.
This was because they saw the black-drop effect in a transit of Mercury, a planet that has no atmosphere.
In the mid-1990s American consumers rejected the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique, which shared innards with a European model, because they were too small for this market.
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One of the chemical elements in Mercury's atmosphere is sodium, a gas somewhat easy to detect because it reflects sunlight very efficiently.
Meanwhile, the San Jose Mercury News was left out of the year-to-year comparison because its 2010 figure represents the absorption of the Contra Costa Times and several other smaller papers.
And because what we're finding - planets that are bigger than Jupiter or smaller than Mercury, denser than iron or lighter than styrofoam - Bill Borucki, the Kepler Mission's principal investigator, believes the next ten or 15 years is going to be even more exciting than the last.
And water would be all the more exciting on Ganymede because it is the largest moon in the solar system (larger even than the planets Mercury and Pluto) and, like earth, it has a permanent magnetic field that protects part of its surface from bombardment by certain sorts of life-destroying radiation.
On one occasion he even expressed a dislike for the BBC because of the way he thought it had treated his so-called "cousin", Freddy Mercury, during his fatal illness.
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