Talk:Iodine

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Date	Process	Result
April 29, 2013	Peer review	Reviewed
October 24, 2016	Good article nominee	Listed

Current status: Good article

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Staining

I 2nd that someone should add staining to uses box.

New project and template

Article changed over to new Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements format by maveric149. Elementbox converted 15:52, 5 July 2005 by Femto (previous revision was that of 05:42, 4 July 2005).

History info

Why was the added history information labeled as vandalism?

Because the added information had nothing to do with Iodine and had a sentence fragment at the end.

Darrien 01:29, 2004 May 13 (UTC)

Good point. =P. it's all better now though. is it satisfactory?

Yes.

P.S. I suggest that you sign your posts with "~~~~".

Darrien 12:17, 2004 May 13 (UTC)

Weird page appearance

The page appears all weird with Mozilla Firefox, the margin text box runs together with the main page.

Cristal structure

From the picture, it does not look face-centered, but rather base-centered. The I2 molecules at the center of the faces do not have the same orientation as the base ones.Ederag (talk) 12:55, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

User:Ederag is correct. The image is based on COD entry 9008595, itself from Wyckoff. The space group is given as Bmab, which is effectively the same as Cmca, number 64. As noted at Orthorhombic crystal system#Crystal_classes, this is base-centred. --Ben (talk) 20:40, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done. DePiep (talk) 21:30, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Solubility

I suggest to add more info on solubility in various organic solvents at room temperature. AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 11:56, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

About a new section on the origin of Iodine

On the page, there is no mention of the origin of Iodine.

In the periodic table, it is an element heavier than Iron. My understanding is that, for its formation, the process of fusion of heavy elements that occurs in supernovas is insufficient. An excess of neutrons, available only from the collision of neutron stars, is necessary to produce elements heavier than Iron, such as Iodine. It is a very particular process that occurred prior to the formation of the Solar System.

The topic does not seem secondary. The Biological Role section highlights the importance of Iodine for Human life, and without Iodine in the Molecular cloud that preceded the Solar System formation, we may not even be here writing on Wikipedia.

I think a specific section on the origin of Iodine in the Universe and, consequently, on Earth and in our body is needed. Bg69 (talk) 09:58, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Bg69

As few as I know, according to the guidelines, this falls under the Isotopes section. Tosha Langue (talk) 13:08, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Split proposed

We currently have a big section called Iodine#Medicine and a pathetically small "main article" called Iodine (medical use). That's the opposite of how it should be: the WP:SPINOFF main article should be where the most of the medical content goes, while the section left should be just a summary.

The Iodine#Medicine section is in many ways much better than the "main article". For a starter, it distinguishes between the use of the elemental form (antiseptic) and the non-elemental forms. --Artoria 2e5 🌉 06:41, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Went ahead and did it, because the article is right there. Artoria 2e5 🌉 11:08, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. ¹⁴¹ Pr {contribs} 16:05, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Abundance rank

An ongoing sluggish edit warring on iodine abundance rank prompted me to look for current relevant discussions. There is a proposal to eliminate any ranking of rare elements for a number of reasons on Talk:Abundance of elements in Earth's crust#Proposal to remove the rankings for low abundance elements in the table. In general, I find that well-grounded. What do you think, editors? Tosha Langue (talk) 16:10, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]