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sodium iodide

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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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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

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

For accurate mass determination sodium iodide was used for lockmass correction.

From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2017

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

Potassium and sodium iodide may lower blood pressure.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield

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