What's good in small concentrations, but lethal in higher? What's a glaring red flag you're encroaching on a lethal concentration?

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Like Fluoride or Oxygen.

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Everything. Literally everything can be fatal in large enough quantities. Quote from one of my chemistry professors: "there are no lethal substances, only lethal doses"

"The dose makes the poison" -some old dude that like found the pharmaceutical industry

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