sodium iodide

American  

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.

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Example Sentences

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

The system, also at Gran Sasso, will start taking data in 2017 with a pair of 5-kg crystals, and scale up to 50 kg of sodium iodide over time.

From Nature • Sep. 27, 2016

Charged the paper with bismuth iodide and sodium iodide.

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