Quote Originally Posted by Skogs
Um. Your math is off (unless I'm being really stupid). 1700mg = 1.7g. Divide that into 4354.8 and you get roughly two and a half thousand, not million. To achieve a mortality rate with that much sarin would mean administering exactly 1.7g per person. Of course, 1700mg is not actually the size of a guaranteed lethal dose - it's the LD50, meaning that half of all doses of that size are lethal!
Thanks for checking. I actually made several mistakes. The first one you pointed out. Second, the lethal dosage is 1700 micrograms, and I accidentally typed it as mg (forgive me, there's no mu on my keyboard!), meaning that my original figure of 2 1/2 million was correct. Third, you're correct about the LD50 - I overlooked that. Thanks again!