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The dose makes the poison. And the phrase "absorbed through the skin" admits a very wide range of absorption rates.
by bell-cot 2y ago
The dose makes the poison. And the phrase "absorbed through the skin" admits a very wide range of absorption rates.
- londons_explore 2y agoInterestingly there are some materials the absorb through the skin far faster than you'd expect. ie. they soak in just like a tissue soaks up water.
- sethammons 2y agohydrofluoric acid. Get some on your skin, and you don't even feel a burn. But within minutes or hours, you may have demineralized your bones, causing them to go beyond brittle
- gilleain 2y agoDimethylmercury, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury
- bell-cot 2y agoTrue...but Hg(CH3)2 is so much of a "MSDS from the 11th circle of hell" corner case that only expendables in heavily armored moon suits should ever go near the stuff.
- MaKey 2y agoYet a German synthesized it in his basement and used it to poison a colleague: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/07/german-who-poisoned-co-workers-sandwiches-receives-life-sentence https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/07/german-who-poi... A crime as heinous as the substance that was used. It's a miracle that he didn't kill himself or one of his family members with it.
- FollowingTheDao 2y agoThe paper seems to conclude that we do not know the safe dose. And we are not talking death, but suffering. So taken together, there would seem to be good reason to continue to continue to unravel the long-hypothesized inflammation/depression connection, and particularly in regards to possible exacerbating factors such as higher levels of M. morganii infection or even higher environmental exposure to diethanolamine. We seem to have a lot to learn here!