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Posted on: Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:00 PM
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Subject: Use of Iodine Blockers in Nuclear Fallout Environments
| Use of Iodine blockers in nuclear fallout environments What is KI and why do we need it? KI is the chemical symbol for Potassium Iodide. Another product with a similar effect is Potassium Iodate (KIO3) One of the products of fallout (actually, product of decay of higher atomic weight radioactive materials) is a radioactive form of Iodine, Iodine-131. The thyroid gland takes iodine from your diet, and uses it to make a hormone that is essential as a raw material for a LOT of things in the way cells process raw materials to make other materials. You can’t live without the various thyroid hormone |
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