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  • noun radioactive iodide

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From radio- +‎ iodide

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Examples

  • Residents near the damaged reactors in Japan have been evacuated and have been given potassium iodide - used to block uptake of radioiodide in the thyroid gland - and the U.S. Navy on Monday ordered its ships and aircraft away from Japan's Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant after low-level contamination was detected in the air and on 17 crew members from three U.S. helicopters working as part of the disaster relief effort.

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News By BRIAN KELLY / SOUTH WHIDBEY RECORD 2011

  • Infected cells effectively concentrated radioiodide isotopes as measured in vitro by Iodide-125 (125I) uptake assays.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Pavlos Msaouel 2009

  • Infected cells effectively concentrated radioiodide isotopes as measured in vitro by Iodide-125 (125I) uptake assays.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2009

  • Infected cells effectively concentrated radioiodide isotopes as measured in vitro by Iodide-125 (125I) uptake assays.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2009

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