chemical toxicity
Harmful compound effects
Chemical toxicity is the capacity of a substance to cause harm to living organisms through chemical reactions.
It depends on dose, exposure route, and duration—a substance harmless in small amounts may be lethal in large ones.
Toxicity is measured through testing and expressed as values like LD50 (the dose lethal to half a test population).
The chemical toxicity of lead makes it dangerous in drinking water.
- cytotoxicityHarmfulness to living cells
- pesticidesChemicals destroying harmful organisms
- rat poisonToxic substance targeting rodents
- bioaccumulationPollutant concentration in tissues
- water contaminationHarmful substances in drinking supply
heavy metals · poison control · DNA damage · LD50 · cell death · dose-response · carcinogenic · birth defects · arsenic · ingestion · hazardous · skull and crossbones · corrosive · dose · contamination · pollutant · liver · acute
- Immunotoxicologyantibodies, antigens, autoantibodies, autoimmunity, T cells
- cardiotoxicityarrhythmia, arrhythmias, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, myocarditis
chemical toxicitynontoxicity
State of being safe
biocompatibility · harmlessness · benignity · inertness · biosafety