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a question of dosage wearing villain makeup, since even water can kill you
means A substance that injures, sickens, or kills a living thing when it's absorbed, swallowed, or otherwise taken in.
from From Old French 'poison,' meaning a drink or potion, which came from Latin 'potio' — a drinking, a draught — built on 'potare,' to drink. The very same Latin word, taken a gentler path through French, gave us 'potion.' So poison and potion are twins separated at birth: one a healing draught, one a deadly one, both just things you swallow.
- dose rule
- Paracelsus: the dose alone makes the poison
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- Botulinum toxin smooths wrinkles and is deadliest known toxin
- arsenic chic
- Victorians ate arsenic for pale, fashionable complexions
- venom vs poison
- Venom is injected; poison is touched or swallowed
- bitter almonds
- Their cyanide smell warns only some noses can detect
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polonium-210 — radioactive element that killed alexander litvinenko in london, 2006
cyanide — chemical compound used in jonestown mass poisoning, guyana 1978, 909 deaths