The whole contraption is hooked to a tank of propane to provide the flame and warmth that lifts the silver
iodide into the atmosphere.»
It launched one aircraft that made laps between two ground - based radars, dropping canisters that spread silver
iodide into the clouds.
Not exact matches
Although spending $ 200 on
iodide pills for an almost nonexistent threat seems ridiculous (and could even be harmful — side effects include skin rashes, nausea, and possible allergic reactions), 40 years of research
into the way people perceive risk shows that it is par for the course.
Believing the theory, 37,000 Chinese peasants shot rockets filled with silver
iodide (a widely used seeding agent)
into clouds.
Duke University scientists have discovered high levels of two potentially hazardous contaminants, ammonium and
iodide, in wastewater being discharged or spilled
into streams and rivers from oil and gas operations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Robinson latches a plate
into the holder and, sliding it forward to expose the buffed metal to the tiny
iodide flakes inside, starts counting under his breath.
The hair - width fibers can be woven
into thicker cables, and the team is investigating ways to improve their electrical properties through doping the nanotubes with
iodide.
Particles like silver
iodide can provide a scaffold on which water molecules can align themselves
into a crystalline structure or, in other words, freeze.
Once those silver
iodide particles make their way
into a ripe cloud, they collide with drops of supercooled water and form ice; the ice then falls to the ground, melting along the way.
The researchers analyzed the resulting simulations and determined that when chloride or
iodide ions were added
into bulk water, the molecules formed a cage or solvation shell around the ion.
Without iron,
iodide from food can not be converted
into its usable form of iodine.
The best dietary sources of
iodide (the food version of iodine that must be converted
into iodine) are seaweed and saltwater fish.
A second set of cellular level events involves uptake of iodine
into thyroid cells by a protein referred to as the sodium -
iodide symporter (and abbreviated as «NIS,» where the «N» comes from «Na,» which is the scientific abbreviation for the element sodium).
The thyroid gland vigorously intakes
iodide from the blood to produce and discharge these hormones
into the bloodstream.
The thyroid gland vigorously takes in
iodide from the blood to produce and discharge these hormones
into the blood.
If you decide to use a synthetic form of iodine it shouldn't be iodine but
iodide (a stable form of iodine) as our thyroid has to convert iodine
into iodide and as a result some harmful oxygen radicals will be produced.
In the process of cloud - seeding or weather modification, silver
iodide, potassium
iodide, or solid carbon dioxide is shot
into clouds by rockets, sprayed
into clouds by drones or aircraft, or burned in generators atop mountains.
Cloud seeding puts chemicals, usually silver
iodide,
into clouds to condense their moisture
into ice, which falls down as snow or rain.
With silver
iodide began the birth of spraying stratospheric aerosols
into the Earth's atmosphere.