Talk:Iodine
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Article changed over to new WikiProject Elements format by maveric149
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Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Iodine (http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/53.html). Additional text was taken directly from USGS Periodic Table - Iodine (http://wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov/isoig/period/i_iig.html), from the Elements database 20001107 (via dict.org (http://www.dict.org)), Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (via dict.org (http://www.dict.org)) and WordNet (r) 1.7 (via dict.org (http://www.dict.org)). Data for the table was obtained from the sources listed on the main page and WikiProject Elements but was reformatted and converted into SI units.
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It is a well known fact that iodine sublimes, but is it actually true? Sublimation is the transformation of a solid to gas without melting. Since Iodine has a melting point well below its boiling point it seems very strange that it would undergo sublimation. Apparantly people seem to think that iodine sublimes because when they look at the solid they can see vapor rising up from it, which is only normal, since every solid, or liquid for that matter, is always in equilibrium with its own vapor. Since iodine has a visible vapor people mistake it for the process of sublimation.
Why was the added history information labeled as vandalism?
- Because the added information had nothing to do with Iodine and had a sentence fragment at the end.
- Darrien 01:29, 2004 May 13 (UTC)
- Good point. =P. it's all better now though. is it satisfactory?
- Yes.
- P.S. I suggest that you sign your posts with "~~~~".
- Darrien 12:17, 2004 May 13 (UTC)
The page appears all weird with Mozilla Firefox, the margin text box runs together with the main page.
The history section mentions treating seaweed ash with hydrochloric acid and then in the next sentence replaces it with sulfuric acid. Apparently one is wrong, but I don't know which one is correct. Anyone able to fix this up? --66.188.84.209 07:56, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)