I know the ng means nanogram
But I’m curious how would I say the above line of 2.1 ng/kg
For context I got it from this paragraph
a lethal dose of 1.3–2.1 ng/kg in humans
Would it be
2.1 nanogram per kilogram?
Also if I wanted to write that as a decimal number how would i write that?
Yeah - the dose is the poison (if you drink enough water it becomes toxic), so if you are talking precisely you need to describe the concentration of a substance in which it is likely lethal to a person, and that’s typically expressed as mass of a substance per mass of bodyweight. A lot of the time you will also see this expressed as an “LD50” value; the dose at which you’d expect 50% of people to die. This accounts for the fact that people’s metabolisms vary quite widely.
~1ng/kg ~= 0.08ug for a typical (~80kg) person, which is a very tiny amount - whatever you are talking about is incredibly toxic.
A quick Google of the numbers says OP is likely talking about botulism so I guess they perhaps have been reading about Botox
Close was talking about Clostridium botulinum
Botulinium
Thank you
Botulinum
LD50 is per kg of rat by weight