Radium, Plutonium or Botox?
2006-12-20 17:01:36 · 6 answers · asked by Fallen Angel X 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
What about dioxin or ricin?
2006-12-20 17:05:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Plutonium
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/9803/msg00419.html
2006-12-20 17:31:36 · answer #2 · answered by jamaica 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plutonium is WAY more harmful because like radium, it does not need to be ingested, only inhaled. But unlike radium, plutonium is a much faster alpha emitter, and in addition to being radioactive, it is also toxic (chemically).
2006-12-20 17:10:19 · answer #3 · answered by naked_in_lake 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I quote:
"It may be the poison from the skin of the world's most poisonous known creature-the tiny, 1.5-inch, Golden Poison Frog (Phyllobates terribilis).
An average P. terribilis contains about one milligram of poison, which is enough to kill 10,000 mice-perhaps enough to kill 10 to 20 humans if the poison reaches their bloodstreams.
This extraordinarily lethal poison (a steroid alkaloid, called batrachotoxin) almost does not occur in nature. It has been found only among three poison frogs in Colombia and two poison birds in Papua, New Guinea.
In terms of demonstrated wildlife mortality is botulinum toxin. Botulinum toxin is produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum (type C), under conditions of low environmental oxygen. This toxin is a high molecular weight protein, and is usually considered to be the most poisonous substance known. Lethal doses as low as 0.01 micrograms/kg (>100,000 times more toxic than strychnine) have been reported. It acts by blocking the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine at neuromuscular junctions, leading to muscle paralysis."
2006-12-20 17:31:14 · answer #4 · answered by darceypollard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polonium 210
2006-12-20 17:12:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmmmmmm why do you ask?
2006-12-20 17:11:08 · answer #6 · answered by BubbleGumBoobs! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋