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Unit 30IQX1 TEN/TENU TECHNLTECHNO LONG 1D1Q AERAERO GADTRIB Words from Mythology and HistoryQuiz 30-1 Quiz 30-2 Quiz 30-3 Quiz 30-4 Quiz 30-5 Review Q

TỪ VỰNG TOEIC unit 30 Quizzes 30I--------------------------------------------------------------1TOXI comes from the Greek and Latin words for “poison.” something the Greeks

and Romans knew a good deal about. Socrates died by taking a solution of poison hemlock, a flowering plant much like wild carrot that now also grows TỪ VỰNG TOEIC unit 30

in the U.S. Rome's enemy Mithridates, king of Pontus, was obsessed with poisons, experimented with them on prisoners, and tried to make himself immune

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to them by eating tiny amounts of them daily. Nero's mother Agrippina poisoned several of her son's rivals to power—and probably did the same to her

Unit 30IQX1 TEN/TENU TECHNLTECHNO LONG 1D1Q AERAERO GADTRIB Words from Mythology and HistoryQuiz 30-1 Quiz 30-2 Quiz 30-3 Quiz 30-4 Quiz 30-5 Review Q

TỪ VỰNG TOEIC unit 30 nisms.• Humans eat rhubarb stems without ill effects, while cattle may die from eating the leaves, which seem to contain two different toxins.Long bef

ore chemists started creating poisons from scratch, humans were employing natural toxins for killing weeds and insects. For centuries South American t TỪ VỰNG TOEIC unit 30

ribes have used the toxin curare, extracted from a native vine, to tip their arrows. The garden flower called wolfsbane or monkshood is the source of

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aconite, an extremely potent toxin. The common flower known as jimsonweed contains the deadly poison scopolamine. And the castor-oil plant yields the

Unit 30IQX1 TEN/TENU TECHNLTECHNO LONG 1D1Q AERAERO GADTRIB Words from Mythology and HistoryQuiz 30-1 Quiz 30-2 Quiz 30-3 Quiz 30-4 Quiz 30-5 Review Q

TỪ VỰNG TOEIC unit 30 y pretty vague about which ones they mean, and most of these “toxins” wouldn't be called that by biologists.toxicity /tảk.sLsa.tẽ/ rhe state of being

poisonous; the degree to which something is poisonous.• Though they had tested the drug on animals, they suspected the only way to measure its toxicit TỪ VỰNG TOEIC unit 30

y for humans was by studying accidental human exposures.Toxicity is often a relative thing; in the words of a famous old saying, “The dose makes the p

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oison.” Thus, it's possible to die from drinking too much water, and lives have been saved by tiny doses of arsenic. Even though botulinum toxin is th

Unit 30IQX1 TEN/TENU TECHNLTECHNO LONG 1D1Q AERAERO GADTRIB Words from Mythology and HistoryQuiz 30-1 Quiz 30-2 Quiz 30-3 Quiz 30-4 Quiz 30-5 Review Q

TỪ VỰNG TOEIC unit 30 contact can be lethal; others are lethal when breathed into the lungs in microscopic amounts. To determine if a chemical will be officially called a

poison, researchers often use the “LD50” test: If 50 milligrams of the substance for every kilogram of an animal's body weight results in the death of TỪ VỰNG TOEIC unit 30

50% of test animals, the chemical is a poison. But there are problems with such tests, and toxicity remains a very individual concept.toxicology /,tã

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k_sL’káJôJẽ/ A science that deals with poisons and their effect.• At medical school he had specialized in toxicology, hoping eventually to find work i

Unit 30IQX1 TEN/TENU TECHNLTECHNO LONG 1D1Q AERAERO GADTRIB Words from Mythology and HistoryQuiz 30-1 Quiz 30-2 Quiz 30-3 Quiz 30-4 Quiz 30-5 Review Q

TỪ VỰNG TOEIC unit 30 other fields. Many are employed by drug companies, others by chemical companies. Many work for the government, making sure the public is being kept sa

fe from environmental poisons in the water, soil, and air, as well as unhealthy substances in our food and drugs. These issues often have to do with q TỪ VỰNG TOEIC unit 30

uantity; questions about how much of some substance should be considered dangerous, whether in the air or in a soft drink, may be left to toxicologist

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s. But occasionally a toxicology task may be more exciting: for instance, discovering that what looked like an ordinary heart attack was actually brou

Unit 30IQX1 TEN/TENU TECHNLTECHNO LONG 1D1Q AERAERO GADTRIB Words from Mythology and HistoryQuiz 30-1 Quiz 30-2 Quiz 30-3 Quiz 30-4 Quiz 30-5 Review Q

TỪ VỰNG TOEIC unit 30 om her blurred vision, slurred speech, and muscle weakness, doctors realized she had encountered a neurotoxin, and they suspected botulism.The nervous

system is almost all-powerful in the body: all five senses depend on it, as do breathing, digestion, and the heart. So it's an obvious target for poi TỪ VỰNG TOEIC unit 30

sons, and neurotoxins have developed as weapons in many animals, including snakes, bees, and spiders. Some wasps use a neurotoxin to paralyze their pr

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ey so that it can be stored alive to be eaten later. Snake venom is often neurotoxic (as in cobras and coral snakes, for example), though it may inste

Unit 30IQX1 TEN/TENU TECHNLTECHNO LONG 1D1Q AERAERO GADTRIB Words from Mythology and HistoryQuiz 30-1 Quiz 30-2 Quiz 30-3 Quiz 30-4 Quiz 30-5 Review Q

TỪ VỰNG TOEIC unit 30 eloped by scientists as means of chemical warfare; luckily, few have ever been used.TEN/TENU comes from the Latin tenuis, meaning “thin.” So to extend

something is to stretch it, and lots of things get thin when they're stretched. The ten- root is even seen in pretend, which once meant to stretch so TỪ VỰNG TOEIC unit 30

mething out above or in front; that something came to be a claim that you were something that you actually weren't.

Unit 30IQX1 TEN/TENU TECHNLTECHNO LONG 1D1Q AERAERO GADTRIB Words from Mythology and HistoryQuiz 30-1 Quiz 30-2 Quiz 30-3 Quiz 30-4 Quiz 30-5 Review Q