Definitions for Poisons
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1. poisons

   Poison is a chemical substance that has a detrimental effect to life. The term is used in a wide range of scientific fields and industries, where it is often specifically defined. It may also be applied colloquially or figuratively, with a broad sense. Whether something is considered a poison may change depending on the amount, the circumstances, and what living things are present. Poisoning could be accidental or deliberate, and if the cause can be identified there may be ways to neutralise the effects or minimise the symptoms. In biology, a poison is a chemical substance causing death, injury or harm to organisms or their parts. In medicine, poisons are a kind of toxin that are delivered passively, not actively. In industry the term may be negative, something to be removed to make a thing safe, or positive, an agent to limit unwanted pests. In ecological terms, poisons introduced into the environment can later cause unwanted effects elsewhere, or in other parts of the food chain.

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1. Poisons

   Substances which, when ingested, inhaled, or absorbed, or when applied to, injected into, or developed within the body in relatively small amounts may, by their chemical action, cause damage to structure or disturbance of function. (From Dorland, 27th ed)

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1. Poisson

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1. Alex

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   Daniel

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Poisons in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Poisons in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Poisons in a Sentence

1. William Von Raab:

   There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

2. Interior Minister Gerard Collomb:

   They are two young individuals of Egyptian origin who were preparing an attack, they possessed instructions on how to build ricin-based poisons.

3. Havelock Ellis:

   There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

4. Vladimir Lenin:

   Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

5. James Madison:

   The internal effects of a mutable policy are [...] calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.

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References

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