Sentence examples for toxic poisons from inspiring English sources

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But the fish, called fugu locally, contains toxic poisons that can prove fatal if it is not prepared correctly.

Syria has used weaponized toxic poisons at least fifty times during the seven-year war, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, charged on Friday.

Warning coloration is found in some of the brilliantly coloured shells and bodies of carnivorous marine snails that produce highly toxic poisons.

Such a cavalier approach to deliberately releasing huge quantities of radioactive toxic poisons into an uncontrolled maritime environment is evidently unethical - and was known to be so at the time.

This relentless chemical dousing has led to the recent spread of "superweeds" that have developed a resistance to Roundup, forcing farmers to use even more toxic poisons, like 2,4-D – an ingredient of the Vietnam War defoliant Agent Orange – and Dicamba in order to control them.

Of Cantrell's documented auctions 24 involved strychnine, arsenic trioxide or other "super toxic" poisons, meaning that a dose of 5 milligrams or less, if ingested, would likely kill a human.

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"[A]posematic species are usually diurnal, as is the case of most aposematic frog species, including the well-known toxic poison frogs in the family Dendrobatidae.

The two smaller bottles, the ministry said, contained "traces of ricin in a mixture that turned out to be a very toxic poison".

It is probably the most toxic poison known to man when swallowed or inhaled – more than 100bn times more deadly than hydrogen cyanide.

Many highly toxic poison dart frogs have striking aposematic colouration, which is a visual signal indicating their toxicity to potential predators.

Well-equipped troops are supplied with hypodermic needles filled with antidotes to be administered in the event of toxic poisoning from nerve agents.

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