Subject: Re: Roundup
From: pollinator@aol.com (Pollinator)
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 17:45:08 -0400
Message-ID: <MOD$970831.20606@rec.gardens.ecosystems>
References: <MOD$970830.8876@rec.gardens.ecosystems>
In article <MOD$970830.8876@rec.gardens.ecosystems>,
michaelross@mindspring.com (Michael E Ross) writes:
>The acute oral LD50 in the
>rat is 5,600 mg/kg." ? Presumably LC50 is some sort of statistical
>measure.
The LD50 is the lethal dose for 50% of the test organisms. If you feed
the chemical to rats, this is the amount of chemical it takes to kill half
of them. There is even a LD50 for water. You can put anything that can be
ingested on a scale according to LD50.
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