2.6: Application

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    Why is Solubility Important?  

    During a nuclear fall-out, radioactive iodine is used by the thyroid glands, which causes a high risk of cancer. Consuming non-radioactive iodine can flood the thyroid and prevent accumulation of the radioactive iodine. 

     

    You are in an underground bunker after a nuclear-fallout. Unfortunately, you don’t have KI, you have CaI2 and FeI3.  Based on your hypothesis, which of these salts would you be able to dissolve to protect yourself from the radiation? Justify your answer.


     

    If you need 45 mg of I- to protect yourself from radiation, what concentration of the soluble salt would you need if the volume of your glass is 8 oz (236.58 mL).

     

     

    Write a chemical equation showing the dissolution of the soluble salt in water.

     

     

    Draw a diagram describing how the salt dissolves.

     

     

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