Guest guest Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 Hi Dawn Rose- Iodine is a non-metal element. Take care, dx & RAI 1987 (at age 24) > Somebody asked me today... what is iodine, and I was surprised to find that > I don't know! Is it a salt? Is it a compound or an element? It's not a > metal is it? Does that make it a non-metal? What kind of a thing is it?! > Just curious. Hope everyone is well. > > > DAWN ROSE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 Somebody asked me today... what is iodine, and I was surprised to find that I don't know! Is it a salt? Is it a compound or an element? It's not a metal is it? Does that make it a non-metal? What kind of a thing is it?! Just curious. Hope everyone is well. DAWN ROSE _________________________________________________________________ MSN Instant Messenger now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_messenger.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2003 Report Share Posted May 11, 2003 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Utecht wrote: > > Iodine is a non-metal element. It also doesn't occur naturally as pure Iodine (quite a lot of elements don't occur as themselves, I believe mercury is one although we do purify mercury as it is useful in thermometers, and the like, but you don't have mercury wells, or Iodine mines), so you wouldn't have experienced Iodine as Iodine, only as part of something else. In the chemistry lab the common Iodine form is solutions of salts of Iodine (usually Potassium Iodide), and it is very good at staining things, often a yellowy orange colour. It's colourful chemistry being the source of most of it's uses outside of sterilisation, and medicine. On the earth all naturally occuring Iodine is in the isotope I-127, and not radioactive, so any radioactive Iodine you encounter is probably man made. http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article?eu=393438 http://isotopes.lbl.gov/education/parent/I_iso.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+vntoGFXfHI9FVgYRAq07AKCZ5scpdd1sU9TdqSVQq64XIVlXagCeMtlh d1C89mj0sgdkPCVfi3UTQAI= =MZUZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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