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Iodine (as potassium iodate or iodide) is added to salt because a diet without iodine lead to cretinism and other illness.

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Is salt iodine?

No, salt is mainly Sodium. Iodine is added to salt to prevent iodine deficiency.


How do you change rock salts into table salts?

The rock salt is refined to obtain table salt: also iodine (as potassium iodide or iodate) and anticaking agents are added to table salt.


What other elements are in table salt?

It often contains Iodine when used in bread and baking. But sometime irradited salts contain alpha particles


What other elements in table salt?

It often contains Iodine when used in bread and baking. But sometime irradited salts contain alpha particles


Is salt made of Iodine?

Regular "table salt" is a compound of sodium and chlorine. Iodine is often added to it before it's sold, as a dietary supplement to protect against the dangers of iodine- deficiency diseases, but iodine is a separate element that's not involved in the composition of pure table salt. But there are "salts" of other elements too, and they include things like silver iodide and potassium iodide, in which iodine is part of the chemical compound.


What is the scientific name for iodized salt?

Iodized SaltJust "salt" is regular table salt, which has the chemical formula NaCl, sodium chloride. However, iodized salt differs from just NaCl because it contains other iodine-containing salts. A salt (as opposed to just "salt," meaning table salt) is any ionic compound with a metallic cation and non-metallic anion. Table salt is a salt because it contains Na+ and Cl- ions. Ionized salt is composed of NaCl, but also has other salts (ionic compounds), which contain iodine. Some of these other salts include sodium iodide, potassium iodide, and potassium iodate.Iodine is an important component of our diet, and iodized salt helps with iodine deficiencies. Among other afflictions, iodine deficiency can result in mental retardation. Usually iodine deficiencies are found in inland countries with little or no access to marine food or has poor soil.See links below for more information.


Is there anything in household salts?

Sodium chloride (table salt) contain potassium iodate or iodide (as a source of iodine) and an anticaking agent.


What are the similarities of Epsom salts and table salts?

They are ionic salts.


Sodium iodine can be added to table salt sodium chloride to produce iodized salt What do these two compounds have in common?

Sodium (Na+) is the common ion in both salts


What is table salt?

Table salt is sodium chloride combined with iodine sources (for nutrition), stabilizers for the iodine, and anti-caking compounds to make it pour by preventing it from absorbing water from the air.Sodium Chloride (NaCl).


How do you separate iodine crystals from table salt?

iodine crystals are black, table salt crystals are white.however I doubt that was your question. I think you are referring to iodized table salt. there are no iodine crystals in iodized salt, instead they add sodium iodide to the table salt. sodium iodide crystals are indistinguishable visually from the sodium chloride crystals of table salt.the only practical way to separate sodium iodide from sodium chloride is the very tedious repetitive process of dissolving the mixed salts and performing fractional crystallization of the solution.


Symbol for iodine?

The symbol for Iodine is "I" on the Periodic Table.