What are some of the industrial uses of KI ?
is combined with silver nitrate to produce silver iodide (
), a key component in film photography. Some disinfectants and hair care chemicals include
. In biomedical research,
is also utilised as a fluorescence quenching agent, which takes use of the iodide ion's collisional quenching of luminous molecules. However, adding
at M-mM doses to numerous fluorophores increases fluorescence intensity, and iodide works as a fluorescence enhancer.