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Even metabolically innocuous substances can be dangerous in quantities sufficient for violent external application e.g. when being dropped[1] on one's head.

What do we call vitamin D surfeit? Arichitis?

[1] Although non-volatile storage these days is a choking hazard, in the earliest days of computing a couple of megabytes would have been fatal if their cabinet were to fall on someone.

(No lang belta this comment: Belters both have more pressing bone issues from life near the float, and get vitamin supplements from the pastes for their kibble, so unless the Belt somehow has universities somewhere and they're premeds cramming, they have absolutely no concept of rickets.)



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