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unusual facts about iodine


Iodine-125

They are McMaster University's Reactor and the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor.


Basil Hetzel

This was part of the stimulus for the creation of the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders association, which is funded by various government, non-government and community organisations including the United Nations, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank.

Conductive polymer

In 1977, Alan J. Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa reported similar high conductivity in oxidized iodine-doped polyacetylene.

Deoxyuridine

They are similar enough to be incorporated as part of DNA replication, but they possess side groups on the uracil component (an iodine and a CF3 group, respectively), that prevent base pairing.

EDDI

Ethylenediamine dihydroiodide, an animal-feed additive providing a source of dietary iodine.

Hetzel

Basil Hetzel, an Australian medical researcher who has made a major contribution to combating iodine deficiency

HOI

Hypoiodous acid, a weak acid consisting of hydrogen, oxygen, and iodine atoms.

Hyperthyroidism

Surgery (thyroidectomy to remove the whole thyroid or a part of it) is not extensively used because most common forms of hyperthyroidism are quite effectively treated by the radioactive iodine method, and because there is a risk of also removing the parathyroid glands, and of cutting the recurrent laryngeal nerve, making swallowing difficult, and even simply generalized staphylococcal infection as with any major surgery.

Iodine Recordings

Facing financial hardships and lack of sales to support these new releases, Iodine had to announce its closing at the end of 2003.

Iodine started as a record distribution company in 1996 formed by Casey Horrigan.

Kosher salt

Unlike some common table salt, kosher salt typically contains no additives such as iodine, although some brands will include anticlumping agents in small amounts.

Largo David Alves

By the 19th century, the popularity increased with people from the provinces of Minho, Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro that arrived by medical advice to cure several health problems, by breathing the air and diving in the rich iodine seawaters of Póvoa, in a popular movement that occurred in the European Atlantic coast since the 18th century, from Biarritz to Póvoa de Varzim.

Little Iodine

In 1946, Comet Productions, a company established by Mary Pickford, her husband, Charles Rogers and Columbia executive Ralph Cohn, produced a 56-minute feature film, Little Iodine, starring Hobart Cavanaugh as Henry, Irene Ryan as Cora and Jo Ann Marlowe as Little Iodine.

Los Angeles Basin

Dow Chemical Company operated a number of plants at oil fields in the Los Angeles Basin, and recovered iodine from brines that averaged 50 parts per million iodine.

Lugol

Lugol's iodine, a solution of iodine in potassium iodide, named after J. G. A. Lugol.

Lugol's iodine

Lugol's iodine, also known as Lugol's solution, first made in 1829, is a solution of elemental iodine and potassium iodide in water, named after the French physician J.G.A. Lugol.

Magellan Planet Search Program

The blue CCD captures stellar activities while the red CCD falls into a temperature controlled Iodine absorption cell is mounted in front of the MIKE entrance slit, this imprints iodine spectrum referencing directly to starlight.

Mellor, Greater Manchester

If no other source of iodine is in the diet, drinking the river water can lead to an enlarged thyroid gland, a condition is known as "Derbyshire Neck", or Goitre.

Micronutrient

In India, Tata Salt Plus, priced at an economical rate of Rs 20 per kg, is an iodine plus iron fortified salt, developed by the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad through double fortification technology.

You're Telling Me!

During the train trip home, feeling that he's failed completely, Sam contemplates committing suicide by drinking a bottle of iodine, but decides against it at the last minute.


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