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RE: Ingesting Iodine Dangerous as KI Substitute...NOT
Oops!
Peter Thomas points out in the appended message that I made a three order of magnitude mistake in my posting on tincture of iodine today. The lethal dose for a 75 kg adult would be approx. 2 grams, which makes it NOT A GOOD IDEA to drink an ounce of tincture of iodine, much less 75 ounces.
My point about topical application of a fraction of an ounce of tincture of iodine still stands.
Jim Dukelow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA
jim.dukelow@pnl.gov
These comments are mine and have not been reviewed and/or approved by my management or by the U.S. Department of Energy -- but perhaps some occasional review would be a good idea.
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter.Thomas@health.gov.au [mailto:Peter.Thomas@health.gov.au]
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 3:53 PM
To: Dukelow, James S Jr
Subject: RE: Ingesting Iodine Dangerous as KI Substitute...NOT
Err Jim...
Isn't 1 oz = 28 g (not mg!!) or am I missing something relating to the actual
amount of active ingredient or fluid vs solid weights ??
Bill Lipton might have a field day over this with confusion of units and powers
of ten (cgs vs mks vs "english") :-)
BTW did you see that other post relating to column headings
eg. quantity x power of 10, does that mean you have to divide or
multiply.
Cheers
Peter Thomas
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