Why is there a threshold in response to some toxins?

Everything is deadly at a certain amount. Sometimes you accidently incest a small amount of something that's toxic, but it doesn't really do any harm because of how little it is. The body just gets rid of it during the its normal biological processes.

There's a certain amount of the toxin that you have to reach before the body begins to really feel it's effects and begin to get rid of it (vomiting, clamminess, all that jazz).

Of course it depends on the substance in question, some things are way more dangerous in much less amounts than others (e.g. ricin vs. poinsettia flowers).

Hope this helps!

odds are decent that your handwriting right now looks a little bit different than it did five years ago, and will look different again in five more. when i look back through my notebooks from middle school to now, i see a long, slow progression from meticulous and teeny letters to bigger, sloppier ones, plus a few side detours: sometime in high school, for example, i decided those loopy cursive lowercase f’s were just the coolest, adopting them as the lone rep for cursive in my otherwise all-print handwriting.

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