Iodine is used industrially many in many ways. Iodine can be used in photography, pesticides, dyes, indicators in analytic chemistry, in special soaps, and a radioactive tracer.
Iodine is used in photography because it is light sensitive. It is used in soaps because iodine is in unsaturated fats, which has high iodine values. When soaps have high iodine values it makes the soap softer. Iodine is found in a lot of different places. Iodine is not usually used in photography as it was in the 20th century but it is still used in different places. Iodine is found in places that make soap and in a chemistry lab. It is also in your cabinet, it is found in salt and in food coloring. A compound of iodine is silver iodide used for the use of photography. |