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What is Acute and chronic toxicity?

Also known as: acute toxicity · chronic toxicity

Definition 32.23 University Chemistry — Year 3 · Chapter 32 — Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology

Acute toxicity is the harm caused by a single exposure or exposures within a short time; chronic toxicity, by repeated or continuous exposure over a long part of a lifetime.

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