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It depends on the amount - dose maketh the poison.



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Lol. Actually if it is a choice between a lb of uranium and a lb of some food colourings you might be better off going for the uranium. If it is in metallic form it should pass straight through your gut while the food colouring will get absorbed.

The human LD50 of soluble uranium salts is around 5g [1], but metallic uranium is not very soluble.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18188051




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