• set_secret@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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?

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      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.

  • WolfLink@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I think if I ate 175 pounds of cured meat, the sodium isn’t what would kill me.

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      5 months ago

      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.

    • Fosheze@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      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.