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What is toxic?

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Toxicity is the degree to which a substance is able to damage an exposed organism. Toxicity can refer to the effect on a whole organism, such as an animal, bacterium, or plant, as well as the effect on a substructure of the organism, such as a cell (cytotoxicity) or an organ (organotoxicity), such as the liver (hepatotoxicity).
how toxic something is or what makes something toxins. Toxins found in something

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It's a different word for poisonous. Toxic materials are substances containing poisionus material ecspesially when causing death or serious illness.

It should be noted that Auroleus Phillipus Theostratus Bombastus von Hohenheim (born in 1493), often referred to simply as " Paracelsus," quite correctly stated that all materials are toxic and that the negative impact is related more to the dose than the material.

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