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Venom vs Poison (mander.xyz)
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[–] cmhe 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What if I put poison on my teeth, bite someone and they die?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unlikely. You probably will injest the poison and die, and depending on if the poison also acts as a venom they may / may not.

It's probably more accurate to say "Venoms are injected. Poisons are injested. "

[–] cmhe 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridatism

But I also suspect that there are poisons which are deadly when injected and more mildly toxic when ingested. But I am not a chemist.

[–] Anticorp 1 points 2 months ago

The poison from those frogs is deadly when injected. The natives use it to tip their darts and arrows.