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LD 50/ LETHAL DOSE

Specialty Definition: LD 50/ LETHAL DOSE

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The dose of a toxicant or microbe that will kill 50 percent of the test organisms within a designated period. The lower the LD 50, the more toxic the compound. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LD 50/ LETHAL DOSE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 44      35 30 2F      4C 45 54 48 41 4C      44 4F 53 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000100 00100000 00110101 00110000 00101111 00100000 01001100 01000101 01010100 01001000 01000001 01001100 00100000 01000100 01001111 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#68 &#32 &#53 &#48 &#47 &#32 &#76 &#69 &#84 &#72 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#68 &#79 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0044      0035 0030 002F      004C 0045 0054 0048 0041 004C      0044 004F 0053 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

463822318172463954423546238495339

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