answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

arsenic

User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar
More answers
User Avatar

AnswerBot

5mo ago

Arsenic is the poisonous element used in both medicines and rat poison. In controlled doses, arsenic is used in certain medications to treat certain medical conditions, while in larger quantities it is used as a rodenticide to kill rats and other pests.

This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: Which poisonous element is used in medicines and rat poison?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

Poisonous element that is also used in medicines and rat poison?

bromide


What element is poisonous but was once used for medical treatment?

A medicine that is poisonous, but was once used for medical treatment is Warfarin or Coumadin. These are both medicines used to thin the blood, but are also used in rat poison. Ether is also poisonous and was used in surgery to put a patient to sleep.


What poisonous element is used in rat poison and medicines?

Several. Arsenic was once used as a rat poison and also has use in medicine (bone marrow disorders as an example. Thallium was once used as a rat poison and was once used to treat Syphillis Barium used to be used in rat poison and is used in medicine (barium meal) for some types of scan. Mostly these days however it is a compound that applies to both rather than an element - that being Warfarin.


What is an element that is a very old poison?

an element that i think is a very old poison is mercury Antimony Arsenic Bismuth Mercury Copper Cadmium and Lead are all poisonous and used in old paint


What element is used to make firworks and medicines?

Magnesium is used for fireworks and medicines


Are apple poisonous or do you have to make them poisonous?

The seeds of the apple are poisonus. The poison is cyanide. This is the same poison Hitler used to go suicide.


What is the weakness of mercury?

Mercury is an element and is very poisonous. It is not used as a drug.


What element is used in antidepressant medicines?

Lithium


Element is Poisonous when inhaled?

Chlorine, which was used as a poisonous gas in World War I.


What element can be used as a slow poison?

What poison, specifically? Several elements are poisonous all by themselves ... arsenic, chlorine, and fluorine to name a few. Lead isn't acutely "poisonous", but it (and several other elements) cause heavy metal toxicity. Plutonium will kill you via ionizing radiation. And so on.


Which element is used in rat poison?

iodine


Element used as rat poison?

Arsenic