Deadliest Chemical?

Question

What is the deadliest chemical?

Answer 1

nicotine

Answer 2

hydrochloric acid in my guess

Answer 3

farts

Answer 4

deadly is deadly, one chemical that will kill you is just as deadly as the next chemical that will kill you

Answer 5

Chemical compound  - VX Nerve Gas

Chemical Element - Plutonium

Answer 6

well it depends

you could say hydrogen......

you know the hydrogen BOMB

Answer 7

Anything that kills me is deadly... Dead is Dead.  None moreso than the other.

Answer 8

arsenic

Answer 9

Cyanide

Answer 10

a spit on the face....it always leads to deaths....

Answer 11

First, I seriously hope you aren't planning on using this info for anything illegal. That's murder.

Second, there are many chemicals that will kill people. Carbon monoxide, potassium cyanide, chloride gas, etc. All those have an end result of dead. I don't know how you would choose which is more "deadly". Deadliness would probably depend on their concentration.

edit: Most common? Water. Drowning.

Ok, not really. But cars produce carbon monoxide..and that kills you. It's odorless, colorless, and tasteless. Houses have carbon monoxide detectors so that people don't die of poisoning.

Once again, I seriously hope you aren't going to use this for anything illegal...

Answer 12

Here is a list of some very deadly toxins (at least to humans) in terms of dose (mass of poison per mass of body weight):

http://chemistry.about.com/cs/5/f/blpois...

For comparison, the LD50 for VX nerve gas is 10 mg, so if you normalize that by body weight (assuming a 100 kg man), tetanus at 1 ng/kg is 100,000 times more toxic.

note:  LD50 stands for Lethal Dose 50%, or the amount that will cause death in half of a given sample of animals/people.  Googling "LD50 humans" will give you toxicity information on lots of different things.

Answer 13

it depends. if you want something that explodes, think TNT. if you want dangerous fumes, hydrochloric acid. if you want acid that eats away at skin like in the movies, that's Vitriol (nitric acid).

Answer 14

why u want to know

Answer 15

uranium