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#077

Who's doing what to our salt? What's iodine, do we need it, why, and how do they get it in there? This week Melissa and Jam dive head first into figurative iodized salt dunes. Let's take a closer look at the chemistry of something so everyday, we hardly even think about it.

References from this episode

  1. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es0719071
  2. https://pubs-acs-org.libproxy.library.unt.edu/doi/10.1021/ed077p984#:~:text=The%20presence%20of%20iodine%20in,in%20preventing%20simple%20endemic%20goiter
  3. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ed062p1016
  4. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/resources/highschool/chemmatters/past-issues/2015-2016/february-2016/salt-facts.html
  5. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-drinking-too-much-water-can-kill/

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