Ingesting gasoline is deadly in far smaller doses due to something called hydrocarbon pneumonia. My dad very nearly died as a result of having a tiny amount get past his throat while siphoning gas to a small engine's tank.
If you must siphon gas, go buy a cheap "pump siphon" from Canadian Tire.
So drinking gasoline is pretty safe
Damn, I can drink a lot more gasoline than I thought
They don't specify the route of administration, so none of these numbers are worth anything.
This is hilariously bad.
It doesn't take into account so many things, and it's extremely misleading.
Most of these chemicals don't ever appear in products in their pure form, so there's so much here that simply isn't relevant.
There's also consideration here that everything is by weight, and it makes sense to create that as a standard, but many of the pure forms of these items are far more dense than you would expect. One that stands out is uranium. A gram of it would be incredibly small, approximately 0.05 cm cubed. 1 lb is around 1.45" cubed (for my American friends).
So it would be an insanely small amount. Meanwhile water is insanely light by comparison. While also safer per gram, so it's an insanely large amount of water before any damage can be done while a relatively small rock of uranium can tear your DNA apart.
The whole chart is wildly misleading. It might be accurate, though, I have no idea if it is, but the fact is that it makes it seem like normal every day compounds like vitamin B will kill you at lower doses than uranium. While technically true based on weight, it makes uranium seem relatively safe by comparison and bluntly it's not. Even the smallest amount of pure uranium, which this chart would regard as "safe", would cause you to become incredibly sick for a very long time.
I hope nobody gathers "new" information from this chart and decides to do something stupid; but honestly, there's a lot of idiots in the world, and if anyone is that dumb, I wonder if the average intelligence of the planet might increase a bit.
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0.59 g/kg
Looks like I can barely survive mine
Where's the 55th substance?
Yeah, I don't buy this shit at all.
How many people die each year from acetaminophen overdoses? Versus how many die from THC?
This whole infographic is a crock of shit
Why omit fentanyl? It should be pretty high in the rankings. Also curious about puffer fish.
This looks like a quite useless guide. All these substances appear in vastly different doses in the environment, so it in no way shows what is more likely to kill you or accurately shows what you are supposed to be careful with.
Vitamin C more harmful than gasoline is an interesting one.
Thanks. This will come in useful when I finally have enough.
I think I have enough capsaicin to kill a person. I don't know how to feel about that.
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