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Why were iodine pills dispensed in schools in the 1950's?

It was to add iodine to diets that lacked iodine in order to prevent "goiters".


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How do you make iodine gas back to solid iodine?

After the iodine is in gaseous form, contain and cap it off with an iced container to recollect it and turn it back into a solid by allowing the gas to rest. The temperature then has to be below 113.5°C in order to solidify.


What two element are out of order in periodic table?

It might be Iodine and Tellurium because Tellurium has a larger atomic weight than Iodine but Iodine has more similar properties with Fluorine and Chlorine so Mendeleev placed them that way to make more sense but at that point the elements were aranged in order of atomic mass. Now the periodic table is in order of it's atomic number rather than it's atomic mass so it all fits nicely.


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