So I'm writing a book and need to know something. One of the characters is a serial killer, and his victim is about five and a half feet tall weighing about 250lbs. The serial killer is going to be using oven cleaner in a syringe, which will be injected into his victim's arm or heart. How much oven cleaner would be needed for the victim to be killed?
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You can go to any search engine such as google.com and type the name of any chemical followed by "msds". That will get you a material safety data sheet from every company that manufactures that chemical. The format is set by federal law, but they have widely varying details. One item required in every sheet is "LDL50" which is the Lethal Dose Level to have 50% chance of killing a person.
"The chief active ingredient in most over cleaners is NaOH or sodium hydroxide, also known as lye."
~ www.reference.com/science/chemical-formula-oven-cleaner-331c033457da83af
Lye dissolves flesh, so the most likely cause of death is internal bleeding because some portion of the arteries went away. Now you can research how long it takes to die from cessation of blood flow to this or that section of the body. If the lye dissolves a valve in the heart, all blood circulation stops. This is sounding like a very gruesome story.