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		lazide 50 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Benzene at 200 Having a glass of wine a day is extremely unlikely to cause any detectable negative health outcomes. Replace the alcohol in that wine with benzene (21ml/glass give or take), and it would not play out the same way.

schneehertz 50 days ago [–]

The LD50 of benzene is 980 mg/kg; drinking that much benzene every day would undoubtedly be fatal

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