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lethal dose
Amount of a substance or physical agent (radiation) that causes death when taken into the body by a single absorption (denoted by LD).
See also: lethal concentration
Source:
PAC, 1993, 65, 2003 (Glossary for chemists of terms used in toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 1993)) on page 2063
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Cite as: IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, Electronic version, http://goldbook.iupac.org/L03500.html.
Transformed and rewritten from PDF version (entry http://www.iupac.org/goldbook/L03500.pdf)
by: Miloslav Nic, Jiri Jirat, Bedrich Kosata, ICT Prague, Czech Republic
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