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Iodine-135 is an isotope of iodine with a half-life of 6.6 hours. It is an important isotope from the viewpoint of nuclear reactor physics . It is produced in relatively large amounts as a fission product , and decays to xenon-135 , which is a nuclear poison with the largest known thermal neutron cross section , which is a cause of multiple ...
Elemental iodine is slightly soluble in water, with one gram dissolving in 3450 mL at 20 °C and 1280 mL at 50 °C; potassium iodide may be added to increase solubility via formation of triiodide ions, among other polyiodides. [25] Nonpolar solvents such as hexane and carbon tetrachloride provide a higher solubility. [26]
135 I undergoes beta decay with half-life of 6.57 hours to 135 Xe. The yield of 135 Xe for uranium fission is 6.3%; about 95% of 135 Xe originates from decay of 135 I. 135 Xe is the most powerful known neutron absorber , with a cross section for thermal neutrons of 2.6×10 6 barns , [ 1 ] so it acts as a " poison " that can slow or stop the ...
The tables below provides information on the variation of solubility of different substances (mostly inorganic compounds) in water with temperature, at one atmosphere pressure. Units of solubility are given in grams of substance per 100 millilitres of water (g/100 ml), unless shown otherwise.
Iodine-125 is commercially available in dilute NaOH solution as 125 I-iodide (or the hypohalite sodium hypoiodite, NaIO). The radioactive concentration lies at 4 to 11 GBq/mL and the specific radioactivity is > 75 GBq/μmol (7.5 × 10 16 Bq/mol). The chemical and radiochemical purity is high.
129 I is one of the seven long-lived fission products that are produced in significant amounts. Its yield is 0.706% per fission of 235 U. [7] Larger proportions of other iodine isotopes such as 131 I are produced, but because these all have short half-lives, iodine in cooled spent nuclear fuel consists of about 5/6 129 I and 1/6 the only stable iodine isotope, 127 I.
Neutron capture (29 barns) slowly converts stable 133 Cs to 134 Cs, which itself is low-yield because beta decay stops at 134 Xe; can be further converted (140 barns) to 135 Cs. 6.3333%: Iodine, xenon: 135 I → 135 Xe: 6.57 h: Most important neutron poison; neutron capture converts 10–50% of 135 Xe to 136 Xe; remainder decays (9.14h) to 135 ...
Its formation explains why the solubility of iodine in water may be increased by the addition of potassium iodide solution: [11] I 2 + I − ⇌ I − 3 (K eq = ~700 at 20 °C) Many other polyiodides may be found when solutions containing iodine and iodide crystallise, such as I − 5, I − 9, I 2− 4, and I 2−