Re: Most toxic Substance?

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From: Lloyd R. Parker
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:00

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Michael Kagalenko (mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu) wrote:
: Stuart Adams  (sadams@rogers.wave.ca) wrote in article <344D8968.E063C4F5@rogers.wave.ca> 
: 
: ]    Plutonium, on the other hand, is a substantially less deadly toxin 
: ]than dozens of other, naturally
: ]occuring substances (and many man-made ones), and it would require
: ] a few milligrams of the stuff to kill
: 
:  In fact, it would take more then that. LD50 for Pu citrate is listed as
:  1.75 g/kg (3x more then aspirin and  6x more then caffeine ! Woo-woo).
:  For an average man, that would mean pretty hefty helping of Pu,
:  especially given post-Cold War prices. On the other hand, the dish
:  with that much Pu is _guaranteed_ to never cool down :-)

If you simplistically consider only the chemical toxicity, I guess.  If 
you do a little more research and also consider the radiation, you'd get 
a different answer, but the answer wouldn't be to your liking.

The maximum allowable lifetime exposure to Pu is 0.6 ug.  That tells you 
a lot about its toxicity.

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From: lparker@curly.cc.emory.edu (Lloyd R. Parker)
Subject: Re: Most toxic Substance?
Date: 1997/10/23
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