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The hell kind of vector is a gram meter second per kilogram
gms/kg
That doesn’t look right
lb
Ugh, at least I’ve heard of that
quart
Was this chart made by a mediaeval apothecary?
cylinder
Alright, what the fuck‽
It’s an American. Ld50 is in g/kg. Quarts are our magic bullshit, but idk why they used it vodka is in fifths and handles (750mL/1.5L respectively). Table salt comes in a standard cylindrical container consisting of about enough to kill every other person that weighs 10.7 stone.
I’m guessing a fifth is like a fifth of a gallon, but handles‽
You are correct. A handle is double that. It’s big enough the bottle has a handle on it
Seems like a perfectly cromulent unit of measurement
So what you’re saying is there’s a 50% chance of me eating 100 frosted cupcakes and surviving
If you’re heavier than 150lbs, the chance is even higher than that! (And you definitely will be by the time you’ve eaten 100 cupcakes)
Ohhh, Murikan units, fyi:
1 US quart (qt) = 0.946352946 liters (l)
So, not exactly breakfast, but a nice desert after dinner.
Ah I got thrown off by it being a US unit as I know in the US for some braindead reason they call a pint a “half quart(er gallon)” so I was thinking 1.136 litres, but yeah the US decided to not even use the same imperial units as anywhere else which still used them at the time just to be extra special (and scam people into thinking they were getting more than they wore, which sets the tone for the US I guess)
US doesn’t use imperial units, US is using US customary units, or something like that.
I love that half is in metric and other half has pounds, foots and quarts.
My metric wired brain just don’t understand it.
Do you not do not science? You obviously use pounds for not science. /s
The relentless muddling of metric with imperial measurements is not only bewildering but an absolute affront to rationality.
When dealing with the critical precision of LD-50 values, why persist with this nonsensical jumble instead of adopting the metric system entirely?
The table’s careless presentation of ‘gms/Kg’ without specifying units in each entry is a grotesque oversight.
Is this some cruel American prank designed to torment and confuse the rest of the world?
These numbers look very questionable. Twice as much salt as alcohol to kill someone? I’m sorry but I call bullshit.
Salt doesn’t do much to the human body.
No, it doesn’t. Wikipedia doesn’t cite any credible source for that number, instead it links to a book, which doesn’t cite anything.
LD50 for sodium chloride is 3g/kg. It is part of MSDS and is based on an actual scientific study.
It’s time to update Wiki.
wtf ive drank vastly more vodka than that, why am I still living
It’s gotta be wrong. Maybe that’s the number for pure ethanol, in which case it would take 2.5x the volume of 80-proof (40% ABV) liquor.
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gms/kg
The what now
Google management suite.
Grams of substance per kilograms of bodyweight.
gms
grams
What is this heresy
Well obviously written by someone who was brought up using imperial rather than metric.
But what ld50 means is grams per kilogram of bodyweight. That’s what the poster is trying to say.
Quart of vodka my ass! We call that “breakfast”
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Now I want a 250 ft long sub…
Let’s see em doordash that
If only a quart of vodka actually did that.
Even tho i hate cupcakes the 100 one looks easy enough .
Definitely seems like the easiest one on the list, but I’m pretty sure you’d vomit before you got very far past a dozen.
Also the LD50 of 100 is for someone who’s 150lbs. That’s fairly light for an adult who’s capable of eating a lot of cupcakes.
just clench your butt cheeks and power through!
LD 50 is tested on animals so it’s not quite a 1 to 1.
That’s a LOT more salt and a little less ethanol than I would have thought.
That’s the amount of salt required to kill you. You’re going to be having a really bad time long before you hit that.
Yeah, but I’d have thought it would be an order of magnitude less than that.
From what I’ve found on safety datasheets it should be more like 3 g/kg. The numbers on this seem a bit off in general.
