sodium iodide

noun

, Chemistry.

1. a colorless or white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble solid, NaI, used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions, in organic synthesis, and as a disinfectant in veterinary medicine.

Example Sentences

Scientists with the ANAIS collaboration have repeated the June-December method with sodium iodide, in an effort to reproduce DAMA’s results with the same method and materials.

From Science News

If the potassium salt is not tolerated, it may be replaced by the ammonium or sodium iodide.

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