sodium iodide
Americannoun
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The ANAIS-112 detector contains nine sodium iodide crystals with a total mass of 112 kilograms and has been taking data in Spain’s Canfranc Underground Laboratory since 2017.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 9, 2021
Another sodium iodide experiment called COSINE-100, under a mountain in South Korea, unveiled a similar analysis to ANAIS’s at conferences this month.
From Nature ● Mar. 18, 2019
The team’s detectors consist of sodium iodide crystals doped with thallium, which produce flashes of light when a particle of some sort—regular or dark matter—strikes a nucleus within the material and sends it flying.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 5, 2018
IceCube's South Pole base is also home to the DM-Ice group, which is currently waiting to install 250 kg of sodium iodide detectors of its own.
From Nature ● Sep. 27, 2016
Iodine can readily be prepared in the laboratory from an iodide by the method used in preparing bromine, except that sodium iodide is substituted for sodium bromide.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William
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