why is fluoride used along with iodine in antiseptics?
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Halogens in general have antiseptic properties.  Think about chlorine!
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depending on the antiseptic you use (if its prescription or over the counter) antiseptic will kill common bacteria and help prevent infections...antibiotic creams depending on what kind you get kill a variety of bacteria but if overused, bacteria can build up resistance and become immune against antibiotics...short term use is safe though...be well!
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Is it red food coloring OR iodine (reddish brown in color) used to clean the skin?
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If Br water ismixed with KI the Br will replace the I in KI and make Kbr and free I2(diatomic) It is not terribly soluble in water. It could buble out as a violet gas if the temp were high enough. \n\nIf KF is mixed with Cl water no reaction because Cl will not replace F. They will replace each oter from bottom up. Nothing replaces F.
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Rooms in Radiology are shielded to whatever the state and federal requirements are to prevent radiation from continuing to areas where they might affect somebody elses health.  Other than the standard cleansing solutions used, the only other chemicals are IPA and chemical contrast (a mixture of saline with Iodine used to make the vasculature show up brightly under CT exam)
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The sodium itself is not designed to act on the teeth, not in large amounts anyway. It is a convenient way to carry fluoride, in things like toothpaste, to a tooth surface. In the area of the tooth, especially if decay is dissolving the surface, the fluoride is exchanged for other ions and deposited into the tooth. This strengthens the tooth structure and makes it more resistant to dissolution by acid created by decay-causing bacteria.
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Why do you abuse this Answer system with your propoganda?  You didn't want an answer, you wanted to spew your pseudo-scientific garbage, and it looks like it failed.\n\nFluoridated water is safe and it's use is supported by REPUTABLE groups such as the ADA, AMA, WHO, CDC and hundreds of other scientifically SOUND organizations.  For a list of these please go to\n\nhttp://www.fluoridefacts.org/fluoride/flu_supp_org.asp\n\nMost groups that are against this tend to be fringe, self-serving groups who use scare tactics, innuendo, pseudo-science and other despicable techniques.  When faced with OVERWHELMING evidence from the scientific world I am sure you whip out the "conspiracy" BS too.\n\nThe vast majority of communities and people do not fall for this garbage and thus have a healthy fluoridated water system. \n\nYou should be ashamed of yourself for yourself for posted such poorly-documented pap.\n\nI am sure you are probably against the chlorination of water too.  Chlorine is poisonous too.....
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Fluoride can help protect your teeth from dental plaque by bonding to your teeth. There are some possible negative side effects however, like Dental Fluorosis.
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They can contain unsafe high levels of iodine.\n\nAnd aren't they bloody expensive???
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The aqueous glutaraldehyde is not used as an antiseptic. It is used to sterilize medical and dental equipments. It is also used for industrial water treatment and as a chemical preservative.\n\nTo differentiate an antiseptic from sterilizer: antiseptic are used to avoid or reduce the possibility of infection while a sterilizer eliminates all microorganisms.\n\nMerthiolate is known as thimerosal which is used as an antiseptic and antifungal agent. All the rest mentioned are used as antiseptics.☺
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Bond energy (in kJ/mol)\n\nF-F:158\nCl-Cl: 244\nBr-Br-:193\nI-I: 151\n\nHence, in order of decreasing bond strength:\nCl-Cl => Br-Br => (F-F) =>  I-I\nFluorine is an anomaly.\n\nBond strength decreases from chlorine to iodine as down the group, the atomic size becomes larger and thus the valence electron orbitals become more diffused, causing the overlap of orbitals to become less effective. Therefore the halogen-halogen bond becomes weaker from chlorine to iodine.\n\nFluorine is an exception due to its extremely small size. The F-F bond length is so short that the lone pairs of electrons on the fluorine atoms repel each other and weakens the F-F bond.\n\nI hope that answers your question.
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Soaps generally are only used to lubricate your hands (or other areas) to allow bacteria to 'slide' off. People think soaps act as an antibacterial but they are wrong. It is simply the lubricating affect of them that makes them useful. This also means that it doesn't matter whether you use hot or cold water either. Bacteria is not killed any better with hot water than it is with cold.
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definitaly the alcohol, thats why i use iodine and peroxide now....damn you brought back nasty child hood memories......roadrashhhhh ouch!!!!
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Because the water in Silver Nitrate acts as the hydrolysing agent.  \n\nAnd, because Halide ions react with silver nitrate to give precipitates of differing color to help distinguish between:  chlorides, bromides and iodides.
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The staining was a factor, but now with triple-antibiotic creams, they seem to work even better, without poisoning the skin/body\n\nPS Iodine, does a similar job, I think.
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I would look into a condition caused by excess flouride in drinking water, toothepaste, and dentist treatments, flouridosis.  Flouride is often falsely promoted as beneficial for teeth.  It is true that the flouride found naturally in tea, for instance, helps prevent infection in the teeth and strengthens the teeth, but sodium flouride is a byproduct of the aluminum and nuclear energy industries and is found in rat poison for a reason.....it is toxic.  Good luck.
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Sodium Fluoride, about half of which is fluorine, from Sigma-Aldrich, is about $1200/kg.\n\nIndustrially, it would be cheaper.