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These numbers look very questionable. Twice as much salt as alcohol to kill someone? I'm sorry but I call bullshit.
Why would salt be more lethal than alcohol? You have a lot of water to displace to deal with it, and you can drink yet more water to do so as it will take a while to effect you.
Alcohol is just poison and the act of processing it does damage. Drinking water to dilute it is less effective as it kills pretty fast.
According to Wikipedia, the lethal dose of table salt is 0.5-1g/kg, not 10 as stated in the post.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_poisoning
Across what dose period between the two? A lethal bolus dose is smaller than a lethal two week evenly distributed dose.
Salt doesn't do much to the human body.
Yes it does and the lethal dose is actually 0.5-1g per kg, not 10.
No, it doesn't. Wikipedia doesn't cite any credible source for that number, instead it links to a book, which doesn't cite anything.
LD50 for sodium chloride is 3g/kg. It is part of MSDS and is based on an actual scientific study.
It's time to update Wiki.