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Your handy guide to how much stuff it takes to kill you, maybe!

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 09, 2024
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Detail from The Lethal Doses of 55 Substances, by CEUfast.com

When scientists want to understand how dangerous a toxic substance is, they use something called the "median lethal dose" or LD50. This tells us how much of the substance it takes to be deadly.

The LD50 is the amount that would be fatal to half the test group. In other words, if you gathered 10…

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