RE: Toxic Trivia

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

At 10:09 AM 02/10/2000 -0600, Ron Amoling wrote:
>I was at a hazardous materials course yesterday and the instructor listed
>Sr-90 as one of the most toxic substances on earth.  Any opinions?
>
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Is this on a weight basis for ingestion? Then other radiative materials are
more toxic. Is this for short-term effects or delayed effects like cancer?
For short-term effects more toxic substances include:

(1) Amanita muscaris, the "death angel" mushroom
(2) Botulinum toxin
(3) dimethyl mercury
(4) fluorine gas
(5) VX or VG

Otto



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