1 Forensic phonetics: the use of phonetics (the science of speech) for forensic (legal) purposes. 2  Speech recognition: the analysis and transcription of recorded speech by a computer system. 3  pronunciation: to learn actual pronunciation of words of various languages.
Mercury vapor is odorless, colorless and very toxic. Even though liquid mercury evaporates slowly, a significant amount of mercury vapor can build up indoors after mercury is spilled, and it can be dangerous to breathe these mercury vapors.
Mercury is a neurotoxinneurotoxinA substance that is known or suspected to be poisonous to nerve tissue.. 1  How someone's health may be affected by an exposure to mercury depends on a number of factors: 2  the form of mercury (for example, methylmercury or elemental (metallic) mercury) 3  the amount of mercury in the exposure;