sodium iodide

American

noun

Chemistry.

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

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

These targets, such as xenon and sodium iodide, are cooled to close to absolute zero to make it easier to spot the small amounts of energy transferred from dark to ordinary matter.

From Nature • Sep. 27, 2016

Iodine in the form of sodium iodide in small doses will act as a prophylactic.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

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