to iodize
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- verb
- /ˈaɪəˌdaɪz/
- Specialized
:
yodar
- Iodizing salt was a way of trying to avoid goiter, but that's no longer much of a problem, and there are other ways of getting needed iodine.
- iodized salt
Examples
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Doctors recommend that we iodize our cooking salt to help prevent iodine deficiency.
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The government launched a campaign to iodize all salt products available in stores.
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I know of not a single professional chef who uses that crap "iodized" salt.
Blog text (20) -
To date, some 400,000 needy people have been given rice, beans, cooking oil, and iodized salt.
Blog text (21) -
Iodized, that's it.
Fiction book (1993) -
Many grocery stores now sell iodized salt to ensure consumers get enough iodine in their diet.
Synonyms
To add iodine to a chemical or substance
Adding iodine to something, often in a chemical or biological reaction
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Iodize comes from the word iodine, which was named from a Greek word meaning 'violet' because its vapor makes a purple color. So to iodize something is to add iodine to it, for example to treat a cut or to add iodine to salt to keep people healthy.