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minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months ago If I take 1 grain of fentanyl powder, and sell it diluted in an entire liter of water, it might sound like homeopathy, The standard dilution is 1:1060. Wikipedia helpfully did the maths: Dilution advocated by Hahnemann for most purposes: on average, this would require giving two billion doses per second to six billion people for 4 billion years to deliver a single molecule of the original material to any patient.
The standard dilution is 1:1060. Wikipedia helpfully did the maths: