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What poisonous element is used in medicines and also in rat poison?
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∙ 12y ago
Warfarin. It is a white crystalline compound that is used to kill rats and other rodents.
Warfarin is also used as a medicine for people, to make their blood thinner so that it does not coagulate so easily.
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Bromadiolone is also found in rat poisons and is composed of bromine, a poisonous element.
Ipratropium bromide is a medication used as a bronchodilator - it assists breathing for patients with lung damage or Asthma-type ailments.
Note that warfarin, bromadiolone, and iprtropium bromide are compounds rather than elements.
A common element used in rat poison is Arsenic, although there are other components such as zinc phosphide, bromethalin, and cholecalciferon.
Thallium is higly toxic, is used in rat poison (though it's currently banned in the US) and a radioactive form (thallium-201) is used in cardiac testing.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoSeveral.
Arsenic was once used as a rat poison and also has use in medicine (bone marrow disorders as an example.
Thallium was once used as a rat poison and was once used to treat Syphillis
Barium used to be used in rat poison and is used in medicine (barium meal) for some types of scan.
Mostly these days however it is a compound that applies to both rather than an element - that being Warfarin.
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∙ 13y agoMostly of the legal drugs contain rat poison or plant seends.
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∙ 12y agoArsenic.
But modern rat poisons use the chemical warfarin, which causes internal bleeding in rats.
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∙ 11y agotea powder milk sugar
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∙ 12y agorsenic
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Poisonous element that is also used in medicines and rat poison?
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