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| | Iodine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Iodine is a bluish-fl, lustrous solid, volatizing at ordinary temperatures into a blue-violet gas with an irritating odor; it forms compounds with many elements, but is less active than the other halogens, which displace it from iodides. |
 | | Lack of iodine is the cause of goiter. |
 | | Iodides, and thyroxin which contains iodine, are used internally in medicine, and as a solution of KI and iodine in alcohol is used for external wounds. |
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