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potassium iodide

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potassium iodide [pə′tas·ē·əm ′ī·ə‚dīd]
(inorganic chemistry)
KI Water- and alcohol-soluble, white crystals with saline taste; melts at 686°C; used in medicine and photography, and as an analytical reagent.


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He also reminded public health authorities of the long-accepted (but, unfortunately, also long-neglected and forgotten) fact that potassium iodide is vitally important for protecting the civilian population against deadly thyroid cancer caused by nuclear fallout from a nuclear attack (whether from terrorists, Russia, China, or other adversaries).
Since therapeutic immunogens were not available during that period, a combination of supersaturated potassium iodide (SSKI), itraconazole, and terbinafine was initiated.
It is known that potassium iodide pills protect against a dangerous contaminant that can result from such attacks, the one that caused the epidemic of thyroid cancer in Europe after the Chernobyl explosion of 1986.
 
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