While there’s no liquid that can ultimately compare with the worth of water on our planet, in the commodity markets, certain liquids attract astronomical prices. The cost is often driven by how difficult they are to obtain, their precious medicinal uses, and sometimes their illicit nature.
Costing $60,000 per gallon, horseshoe crab blood contains a substance known as Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL), used to test bacterial contamination in medical equipment and vaccines.
4. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) –$123,000 per gallon
LSD is a highly potent hallucinogenic drug that’s worth a small fortune due to its illicit nature and high demands. Several factors determine prices, but it’s often pegged at not less than thousands of dollars per ounce.
Certain scorpion species hold precious venom worth up to $39 million per gallon due to their therapeutic and medicinal nature for treating rare diseases.
Zolgensma is used to treat a rare neuromuscular disorder known as spinal muscular atrophy. The revolutionary drug is budget intensive to create and often took years of research work before hitting clinical trials. One 5.5 mL dose of Zolgensma costs $2.1 million.