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   On Wed, 8 May 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   > On 2024-05-08, D  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> Oh please initiate me in the secrets of iodine! That's a   
   >>>> topic I have never explored fully and I think more people   
   >>>> actually should! ;)   
   >>>   
   >>> I didn't retain much. It just suddenly came to mind as   
   >>> fitting into some peoples' treatments of some physical   
   >>> malady/maladies or another when I was kid. But I either   
   >>> never knew, or had forgotten it's an *element*. It's also   
   >>> purple in one or more physical phases.   
   >>>   
   >>> No secrets beyond that!   
   >>   
   >> Hmm, iodine... I'm thinking something related to "duck   
   >> and cover"?   
   >   
   > Keep going... I'm not quite grasping.   
      
   I think its recommended to eat iodine in case of a nuclear disaster. It   
   attracts some radioactive isotope somehow so it doesn't spread in the   
   body. Hence the duck and cover reference.   
      
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