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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

These numbers look very questionable. Twice as much salt as alcohol to kill someone? I'm sorry but I call bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why would salt be more lethal than alcohol? You have a lot of water to displace to deal with it, and you can drink yet more water to do so as it will take a while to effect you.

Alcohol is just poison and the act of processing it does damage. Drinking water to dilute it is less effective as it kills pretty fast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

According to Wikipedia, the lethal dose of table salt is 0.5-1g/kg, not 10 as stated in the post.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_poisoning

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Across what dose period between the two? A lethal bolus dose is smaller than a lethal two week evenly distributed dose.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Salt doesn't do much to the human body.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes it does and the lethal dose is actually 0.5-1g per kg, not 10.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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.