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Iodine General Information
 Categories
  • Class: Halogens
  • Period: 5
  • IUPAC group: 17
  • Traditional: VIIb
History
  • Discovered in: 1811 by Courtois
  • Origin of name: Greek: iodes, (violet)
  • Historical or alternate name:
Common natural occurrences

Caliche, sea water & sea brines

Description

Shiny violet-black solid with characteristic odor. Sublimes easily.

Abundances
  • Atmosphere: ~0.0 ppm
  • Primitive mantle: ~0.0 ppm
  • Sea water: 0.05 ppm
  • Metallic meteorite: 0.430 ppm
  • ConTinental crust: 0.5 ppm
  • Solar photosphere: ~0.0 log of abundance
  • Oceanic crust: ~0.0 ppm
  • Solar system: 0.90 relative to Si=1.0e6
Hazards and Tolerances

   Hazards

Harmful vapor. Irritant. Causes burns on inhalation or skin contact..

   Human daily limits
  • Lower:0.01
  • Upper:1.0

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Iodine Physical Properties

 Transitional Data

  • State: Solid
  • Density: 4.93 g/cm3

 Molar enthalpy

  • Atomization: 107.240 kJ mol-1
  • Fusion: 15.27 kJ mol-1
  • Vaporization: 41.67 kJ mol-1

 Transition points

  • MelTing point: 386.7 K
  • Boiling point: 457.50 K
  • Critical temperature: 819.0 K

 Molar properties

  • Atomic weight: 126.90447 g/mole
  • Molar volume: 25.873 cm3 mol-1

 Crystal structure sequence

orthorhombic

 Thermodynamics

  • State: solid
    • Enthalpy 0
    • Gibbs function 0
    • Entropy 116.135
    • Heat Capacity 54.438
  • State: gas (I2)
    • Enthalpy 62.438
    • Gibbs function 19.327
    • Entropy 260.69
    • Heat Capacity 36.90
  • State: gas (atoms)
    • Enthalpy 106.838
    • Gibbs function 70.250
    • Entropy 180.791
    • Heat Capacity 20.786

 Miscellaneous physical

  • Electrical resistivity: 1.3 E15 µ-ohms/cm
  • Debye temperature: K
  • Thermal conductivity: 0.449 W / m / K
  • Coefficient of linear expansion: Coef. per K
  • Mass magnetic susceptibility: -4.40e-9
  • X-ray diffraction mass absorption coefficients:
    • CuK: 294 (µ/p)/cm2 g-1
    • MoK: 37.1 (µ/p)/cm2 g-1

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Iodine Chemical Properties

 Chemical basics:

  • Oxidation states: -1 +1 +5 +7
  • Molecular wt: 126.90447 g/mole

 Radii

  • Covalent: 133.3 pm
  • Atomic: 133.0 pm
  • Van der Waals: 215 pm

 Ions:

  • ion: -1 pm 220.0
  • ion: +5 pm 95.0
  • ion: +7 pm 53.0

 Covalent bonds

Bond:
I-H
I-C
I-O
I-F
I-Cl
I-I
I-Si
I-P
Radius
160.9
213
195
191
232
266.6
243
252
Energy
299
218
234
280
208
151
234
184

 Effective nuclear charge

  • Slater: 7.60
  • Clementi: 11.61
  • Froese-Fischer: 14.59

 Electronegativity

  • Pauling: 2.5
  • Allred-Rochow: 2.21

 Standard reactions

oxidation =>
H5IO6 + H+ + 2e- =>
2IO3- + 12H+ +10e- =>
IO3- + 6H+ + 6e- =>
HIO + H+ + 2e- =>
I2(s) + 2e- =>
I2 + 2e- =>

reduction
IO3- + 3H2O
I2 + 6H2O
I- + 3H20
I- + H2O
2I-
2I-
potential
1.6
1.19
1.09
0.99
0.536
0.53

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Iodine Nuclear Properties

Isotopes
Number of isotopes:
  • Known 24
  • Listed 5
Isotope range:
  • Known 117 - 139
  • Listed 125 - 131
Nuclide 125
  • % Occ.:Natural
  • Mossbauer NRA:
  • Nuclear spin/Quantum no.:
  • Radioisotopes:
    • Half-life: 60.10 days
    • Decay mode: E.C.,
    • Source: reactor
  • Notes med
Nuclide 126
  • % Occ.:Natural
  • Mossbauer NRA:
  • Nuclear spin/Quantum no.:
  • Radioisotopes:
    • Half-life: 13.00 days
    • Decay mode: E.C., Beta- Beta+
    • Source: reactor
  • Notes
Nuclide 127
  • % Occ.:Natural 100.0%
  • Mossbauer NRA: 9.23
  • Nuclear spin/Quantum no.: 5/2
  • Radioisotopes:
    • Half-life:
    • Decay mode:
    • Source:
  • Notes
Nuclide 129
  • % Occ.:Natural
  • Mossbauer NRA: 4.44 *
  • Nuclear spin/Quantum no.: 7/2
  • Radioisotopes:
    • Half-life: 15.70 E6 years
    • Decay mode: Beta-
    • Source: reactor
  • Notes
Nuclide 131
  • % Occ.:Natural
  • Mossbauer NRA:
  • Nuclear spin/Quantum no.:
  • Radioisotopes:
    • Half-life: 8.02 days
    • Decay mode: Beta-
    • Source: reactor
  • Notes med
Thermal neutron capture
  • Isotope Cross-section 6.2±0.2 barns
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Nuclide: 127
  • Absolute sensitivity: 9.34e-2 1H=1.0
  • Relative sensitivity: 9.34e-2 1H=1.0
  • Receptivity: 530 13C=1.0
  • Magnetogyric ratio: 5.3525e7 rad / T / s
  • Quadropole moment: -0.79e-28 m2
  • Frequency: 20.007 MHz
  • Reference: NaI

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Iodine Energy Properties

Electrons

  • Ground state electron configuration: [Kr] 4d10 5s2 5p5
  • Electron affinity: 295.3 kJ mol-1
  • Filling orbitals:

Spectral lines

 Wave length 4099.0
  • Relative intensity
  • Detection limits
    • Arc (ug/g)
    • Spark (ug/ml)
    • Flame emission (ug/ml) 2.0 AH
    • Atomic absorption (ug/ml)
  • Notes: InI

 Ionization energies

Ionization level
I -> I+
I+ -> I+2
I+2 -> I+3
Ionization potential
1008.4
1845.9
3200

 Atomic energy levels

Orbital
np
ns
(n-1)d
Energy
1.6002
3.1163
9.8543

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