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| Specialty
Chemical Products |
Potassium Iodide |
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| Chemical
Name |
Potassium
Iodide |
| Empirical
Formula |
KI |
| Physical
Appearance |
White
crystalline solid |
| Molecular
Weight |
166
grams/mole |
| Boiling
Point |
1330 °C |
DESCRIPTION
Potassium Iodide is an inorganic compound.APPLICATION
The major uses of KI include nutritional
supplement in animal feeds, a precursor to AgI,
and as a component in disinfectants. Potassium
iodide is also added to hair chemicals, and
sometimes table salt in small quantities to make
it "iodized." KI is also used as a fluorescence
quenching agent in biomedical research because
of collisional quenching by its iodide ion. |
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