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Acute Inhalation Toxicity

Acute Inhalation Toxicity is the concentration of a substance or mixture of substances in air, which, when inhaled continuously for eight hours by a group of 10 or more laboratory white rats, produces death in half the group within 14 days.

The waste is considered hazardous by inhalation toxicity1 if LC50 is less than 10,000 ppm.

References

1 22 CCR Section 66261.24(a)(5)

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