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LD50

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LD50 median lethal dose.
LD50,
LD50
median lethal dose; the dose that will kill 50% of the tested group.

LD50
Lethal dose50, median lethal dose The radiation dose that is lethal to 50% of those exposed–2.5-6.0 Gy, assuming that optimal care—ie transfusions, trauma and nursing care, antibiotics and nutrition—is available


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A consequence of this insolubility is that the blend (available under the designation Halstab X-1129) was found to have an acute oral LD50 in rats of greater than 5,000 mg/kg (ref.
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Oral LD50 (lethal dose sufficient to kill 50% of population) endosulfan in rats is 80 mg/kg, and it has been classified as a moderately hazardous (class II) pesticide [World Health Organization (WHO) 2002].
 
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