The Biological Half-life of Inorganic Mercury in the Dungeness Crab (Cancer magister)

Abstract

The biological half-life of inorganic mercury in the Dungeness crab, Cancer magister, has been determined experimentally to be about 25 days. Three theoretical models to explain the mode of elimination were tested by computer program. From results obtained, the validity of the widely used negative exponential "biological half-life" is left in some doubt.