Health and Safety
Elemental scandium is considered non-toxic and little animal testing of scandium compounds has been done. The median lethal dose (LD50) levels for scandium(III) chloride for rats have been determined as 4 mg/kg for intraperitoneal and 755 mg/kg for oral administration. In the light of these results compounds of scandium should be handled as compounds of moderate toxicity.
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