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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What I had in mind is more like this 25kg bucket. That's enough to kill about 2,000 people, which is actually a lot fewer people than I would have guessed before I looked up the LD50.

I've never actually seen caffeine in a bucket myself, but I worked in a lab once that had a big plastic jar of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Isn't the LD 50 just over a gram?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What I read was that it's about 200mg per kg, so for a 70kg human that works out to 14 grams. That actually sounds remarkably high (14 grams is a lot). Did I mess up somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I didn't bother to look it up, that was just my random vague understanding. I'd trust your numbers over mine.