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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
The only thing I’ll defend here is cylinder, because we actually all get our salt in cylinders, so it’s a legitimately useful comparison in this one specific instance
My first thought was gram times second times meter per kilogram xD
So what you’re saying is there’s a 50% chance of me eating 100 frosted cupcakes and surviving
The image had me at 100 frosted. I didn’t care after that.
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)
Huh. I guess I’ve been lucky with those quarts of vodka.
I think that one’s off. Ethanol has a LD50 of like 7.06 and vodka is also at around 40% by volume too. Also because I’ve cleared plenty of quarts before I stopped that.
I think there’s also the amount in the body at one time to consider, I don’t think many people aren’t downing an entire quart of liquor in one straight shot.
Sounds like your college experience and mine were slightly different. :/ You’re probably healthier for it.
go visit a pub that’s in a close vicinity to a university
“$6 shots? Can I get that in my own glass?” [They roll a novelty shot glass lawn ornament around the bar]
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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
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)
The thing I find hilarious about this is alcohol in the US is often measured in ml, and usually sold at 750 or 1500ml as opposed to quarts
Soda is in ounces until it reaches a liter. Alcohol is ml until you get to 40 ounces. Milk is always pints, half gallons, and gallons. Why?
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.
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.
According to Wikipedia, the lethal dose of table salt is 0.5-1g/kg, not 10 as stated in the post.
Across what dose period between the two? A lethal bolus dose is smaller than a lethal two week evenly distributed dose.
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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Now I want a 250 ft long sub…
Let’s see em doordash that
I think if I ate 175 pounds of cured meat, the sodium isn’t what would kill me.
If only a quart of vodka actually did that.
Okay, I’m in. Where is the bacon so I can test this empirically?
Mmmmmmmm, 50,000 potato chips.
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.
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.
