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The LD50 for humans is not necessarily equivalent to the LD50 for horses.
– Jordan Bentley
Commented Sep 14, 2012 at 15:14
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@JordanBentley is right - LD50 doesn't translate across species. But I think Nick's answer is as accurate as you could get without killing a number of horses.
– Coomie
Commented Sep 17, 2012 at 4:43
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@Coomie but someone did kill a number of horses to get a more accurate answer science.sciencemag.org/content/127/3305/1054 , and the amount of nicotine required is really about 10 times more.
– DavePhD
Commented May 26, 2016 at 18:26
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@DavePhD "Many horses died to bring us this information" - Mon Mothma
– Coomie
Commented May 30, 2016 at 1:18

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