It does not distribute neurotoxic mercury around the planet; it does not clog city air and the lungs of those who breathe it with soot and sulphur.
As for the venom, it is true that the terms neurotoxic, hemotoxic, and cardiotoxic, once used to describe the different effects, are clearly misleading and are too simple for accurate statements concerning venom composition.
The neurotoxic component, tetanospasmin, is one of the deadliest poisons known.
They have smooth scales, flat-sided (coffin-shaped) heads, long front fangs, and a powerful neurotoxic venom (see snakebite).
Once munitions are destroyed, the inspectors must turn to the roughly 1,000 tonnes of sarin, mustard gas and other neurotoxic agents that are said to be spread through as many as 45 different locations in a country convulsed by conflict.
Earlier this month, in an unprecedented U-turn, the FDA dropped much of its reassuring language on the fillings from its website, substituting: "Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and foetuses".
The Guinness Book of World Records has named it the most venomous spider in the world for possessing the most active neurotoxic venom of any living spider.
Because acrylamide is neurotoxic and is listed as a probable carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) in humans, its presence in many processed foods has been a source of public health concern.
(A microorganism that could degrade nerve-gas effluents like organophosphates, which are neurotoxic — toxic to the nervous system — was first isolated in 1973.
Nearly all G.M. corn — which is about ninety per cent of the corn in the United States — is grown using neonicotinoids, a class of neurotoxic insecticides.
