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One drop of it's venom can kill 100 men??? Must be a big drop.
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Or... really little men? :crazyeyes: :lol: :lol: jim
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i wonder how it happened *ahem* alcohol
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Owen wrote:One drop of it's venom can kill 100 men??? Must be a big drop.
I don't see how this is anything outrageous. It's just a way to relate toxicity to lay people, as opposed to telling you the LD50 is (for example, I don't know the numbers) 0.01mg of venom for the average 70kg human. If a drop of venom contains 1mg total, it's not completely unreasonable to state that the venom is toxic enough to kill 100 men.
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Soopaman wrote:
Owen wrote:One drop of it's venom can kill 100 men??? Must be a big drop.
I don't see how this is anything outrageous. It's just a way to relate toxicity to lay people, as opposed to telling you the LD50 is (for example, I don't know the numbers) 0.01mg of venom for the average 70kg human. If a drop of venom contains 1mg total, it's not completely unreasonable to state that the venom is toxic enough to kill 100 men.
Using the numbers you picked, 1mg total venom with 0.01mg LD50 doses administered, then its only enough venom to kill 50 people, because 50 of the people envenomed will survive. :D
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mywan wrote:
Soopaman wrote:
Owen wrote:One drop of it's venom can kill 100 men??? Must be a big drop.
I don't see how this is anything outrageous. It's just a way to relate toxicity to lay people, as opposed to telling you the LD50 is (for example, I don't know the numbers) 0.01mg of venom for the average 70kg human. If a drop of venom contains 1mg total, it's not completely unreasonable to state that the venom is toxic enough to kill 100 men.
Using the numbers you picked, 1mg total venom with 0.01mg LD50 doses administered, then its only enough venom to kill 50 people, because 50 of the people envenomed will survive. :D
Um, right. And this is why I'm not going into a field with math! :lol:

So, um LD50 of 0.005mg then, yeah. :thumb:
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