Description

What is sodium iodide?

White crystals or particles. Odorless, salty, and slightly bitter. Deliquescent. In the air and water solution gradually precipitate iodine and turn yellow or brown. 1g dissolved in 0.5ml water, about 2ml ethanol, 1ml glycerol, dissolved in acetone. Heated to 64.3℃ can dissolve in its own crystalline water. stimulating

The function of sodium iodide

It’s an oxidizing agent, and as such, it can cause fires upon contact with combustible materials or reducing agents. Use this medication along with other emergency measures that will be recommended to you by public health and safety officials.

Application of sodium iodide

1. It is the raw material for manufacturing inorganic iodide and organic iodide. In medicine as expectorant and diuretic, also used to treat goiter. Can be used as a photographic film sensitizer, iodine cosolvent, also used in the preparation of iodine emulsion.

2. Micro determination of cesium, platinum, and thallium, etc. Iodine cosolvent. A photograph. Radiation scintillation detector.

3. Used as an X-ray contrast agent in medicine, can be used for cystography, retrograde urography, t-tube cholangiography, etc.

4. Used in medicine as thyroid tumor prevention agent, expectorant and diuretic, food additives, photosensitive agent. 5. Used as an analytical reagent. Also used in photographic film photosensitive agent, iodine cosolvent, preparation of iodine emulsion and used in the pharmaceutical industry