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The lethal doses of 55 substances (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 years ago by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to c/coolguides@lemmy.ca

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[–] SoonaPaana@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This is a very very cool graphic. Really highlights that MSG is needlessly antagonized. Also so weird to see sarin and nicotine next to each other.

Marketing is a bitch.

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[–] Jochem@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Let's not forget this only refers to LD50 not permanent organ damage.

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago*

Exactly. Gasoline, for example, is remarkably non-toxic, but it will cause instant chemical burns to your throat and lungs, possibly killing you far below the (chemically) lethal dose.

Methanol will turn you blind at a quarter of the listed dose, and those two are just from the top of my head.

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[–] neo@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

I wonder how they came up with the LD50 of all those materials, like THC and LSD. Is this based on theoretical calculation, in vitro tests, or on a (assumably) very small sample of known deaths?

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[–] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Step 1: Feed/Inject mutliple rat populations with different concentrations
Step 2: See how many die.
Step 3: The concentration which causes 50% of the population to die is the LD50

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[–] neo@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

While I was thinking you were yet another user, you were a rat the whole time! Wait, we are all rats!

Jokes aside, animal testing as a data source seems reasonable to me. Thanks

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[–] H4mi@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

All the above, most likely

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[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago*

Or aspects like arsenic staying in your body a very long time, or the fact that LSD is psychoactive in microgram doses, so you'd need thousands of tabs to die.

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