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What about Barium? Water-soluble barium compounds are toxic while the insoluble barium sulfate is used as radiocontrast agent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barium_sulfate#Radiocontrast_a...



Well sulfates in general tend to be highly insoluble in water, and therefore biologically inert, so I think this is still kind of a cherry-picked example


Isn’t cherry-picking kind of the point here?




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