Recently, ISMP Canada published a safety bulletin on oral dosing errors associated with LUGOL's solution (potassium iodide and iodine), also referred to as strong iodine solution. [1] The ...
Iodine is an essential element - without which we would suffer severe developmental problems - and yet most of us have no idea how much we need, or where it comes from. In Their Element: Awesome ...
Organic solvents with densities greater than and less than that of the aqueous solution are used to extract the iodine. The aqueous solution of food color is blue. Iodine in water is yellow, and when ...
The triiodide ions are reduced back to iodide by thiosulfate at a much faster rate, until the thiosulfate is consumed. Then the triiodide ions form a blue starch-pentaiodide complex, causing the ...
Only the parts that were green become blue/black with iodine solution, showing the importance of chlorophyll in photosynthesis. The parts without chlorophyll do not photosynthesise, and so they do ...
A lack of natural iodine in the soil and water, and an iodine-poor diet, led to the "characteristic neck swellings": enlarged thyroid glands. But after iodine supplements were shown to help ...