role of potassium iodide?
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Potassium iodide (also called KI) is a salt of stable (not radioactive) iodine. Stable iodine is an important chemical needed by the body to make thyroid hormones. Most of the stable iodine in our bodies comes from the food we eat. KI is stable iodine in a medicine form.
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Not without a reducing agent that will turn iodine into iodide, and then you will have to get rid of that reducing agent.\n\nI guess if KI is unavailable you'd better look for another titrable reducing agent to react with the bleach, e.g. Fe2SO4 solution.
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1. Sodium will combine with Iodine, but Iodine never has a -3 charge. That would involving adding electrons to the 6st orbital, which would be considerably less stable than adding 1 electron to fill the 5p orbitals.\n\nSodium also doesn't form a +2 charge.\n\nBased on your data, it would be:\n\n3Na^+2 + 2I^-3 = Na3I2 \n\nI think it's:\n\nNa+ + I- ---> NaI or 2Na + I2 (solid) ---> 2NaI \n\nionic\n\n\n2. Protons will activately react with hydride donors to give hydrogen gas. That's why Lithium aluminium hydride is so reactive to water ... it considers the water's hydrogen atoms as a source for protons.\n\nH+ + H-1 ---> H2   covalent and non-polar.\n\n3.\nC^+4 + 20^-2 ---> CO2\n\nCovalent and non-polar
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potassium iodine\nyeah, potassium iodide\nperson below me is right
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Hyperaldosteronemia= preferential conservation of Na, loss of K+, H+
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Iodine tablets are usually given for iodine deficiency, which is the cause of some forms of hypothyroidism.  But the name you have given does not ring a bell, so these tablets could possibly contain a form of radioactive iodine, which is used to destroy thyroid tissue so as to limit the effects of a too-active thyroid.
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No, but regularly eating bananas, almonds, or other foods that contain potassium will prevent them.
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Yes, it's use the isotope 135 I or 125 I to treat the thyroid cancer, because in this gland exist a very efficient transporter of Iodine called NIS. This protein transport Iodine inside the cell where are produced the T3 & T4 hormones, that need Iodine for their synthesis. The enter of this radioactive iodine to the cell lead to the destruction of the cell and the destruction of the entire gland that contain the cancerigenus cells, so the cancer is over or is a big chance for this aim.
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When a Potassium atom becomes a Potassium ion, it looses a single electron to become K+.\nThe one electron it looses is located in its outermost, valance, electron shell (the S orbital).\nWhen this electron is taken away, the S orbital is empty and the radius of the resulting ion is now smaller than the previous atom.
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Potassium is an electrolyte (a substance that maintains your body's fluid levels), this mineral helps regulate blood pressure and heart function. Research shows that increasing your potassium intake can lower your blood pressure. Those individuals with existing hypertension, as well as those just looking to keep their blood pressure in check, can benefit from potassium.\n\nA Harvard study showed that men who took a potassium supplement with a diuretic decreased their incidence of stroke by 60 percent, compared to men who did not. Potassium neutralizes acids and restores alkaline salts to the bloodstream. Potassium works with sodium in all cells including at nerve synapses to maintain or restore membrane potentials and to assist in metabolic processes. Potassium is critical to our cardiovascular and nerve functioning, regulating the transfer of nutrients into cells and facilitating muscle energy.\n\nPotassium also regulates water balance and assists recuperative powers. Potassium aids rheumatic or arthritic conditions (causing acids to leave the joints and ease stiffness). Potassium is crucial for the elimination of wastes. Potassium is a natural pain desensitizer. Potassium helps control convulsions, headaches and migraines, promotes faster healing of cuts, bruises and other injuries and generally contributes to a sense of well being. Potassium is stored in the muscles.
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Okay you have a choice between Potassium oxalate (K2C2O4 ) and Sodium Iodide (NaI). \n\nPotassium oxalate is highly soluble (30g/100g) and sodium iodide is even more soluble(184 g/100 ml).\n\nWithout knowing the reactants it is almost impossible to predict a product, especially with two choices. Given those two products, I would expect it to be K2C2O4, but that is just a guess. What was in the solution?
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Table salt has iodine added to it.  If you don't eat a lot of fish (another common source) and don't use table salt (unlikely since all restaurants do practically) then you could be iodine deficient.
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Iodine is required by the thyroid gland to avoid goiter
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There's really no foods you should avoid. I have hypothyroidism myself and I think my endocrinologist said something about eating more food with iodized salt in it, since it deals with iodine deficiency. But if your on medication for it there really isn't a need for it.
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sodium/ potassium pump is what enables any living cell that thrives in water media (that includes all human cells) to keep an isotonic concentration of the positivelly charged sodium ion vs. its counteractive potassium equivally monocharged cation. This is insured by an active transmission of the potassium cation into the cell, with the concurring release of the sodium cation out of the cell, against all principle of osmotic pressure. This requires important usage of energy, as supplied by the continuous Krebs cycle, generating the higher energy levelled ATP. This pump is always active and its dysfunctionment will result into the misconcentration of the solutes in the cell, that will be fatal
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Here is a very detailed write up :\n\nhttp://www.nicholsdiag.com/products/thyroid/di-calcit.pdf
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Name: iodine \nSymbol: I \nAtomic number: 53 \nAtomic weight: 126.90447 (3) \nCAS Registry ID: 7553-56-2 \n Group number: 17 \nGroup name: Halogen \nPeriod number: 5 \nBlock: p-block \n \nHere is a brief description of iodine.\n\nStandard state: solid at 298 K \nColour: violet-dark grey, lustrous \nClassification: Non-metallic \nIodine is a bluish-black, lustrous solid. It volatilises at ambient temperatures into a pretty blue-violet gas with an irritating odour.\n\nIt forms compounds with most elements, but is less reactive than the other halogens, which displace it from iodides. Iodine exhibits some metallic-like properties. It dissolves readily in chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, or carbon disulphide to form beautiful purple solutions. It is only slightly soluble in water. Iodine compounds are important in organic chemistry and very useful in medicine and photography. Lack of iodine is the cause of goitre (Derbyshire neck). The deep blue colour with starch solution is characteristic of the free element. It is assimilated by seaweeds from which it may be recovered, and is found in Chilean saltpetre, caliche, old salt brines, and salt wells.\n\nYou can never know too much :)