Re: Sodium Iodide labeled as Nascent

Maybe we are getting definfions mixed up. I am defining nascent as monoatomic, an atom not bound to another.
You said "The half life of a nascent Iodine atom is on the order of 400 microseconds, so it is not physically possible to bottle up nascent Iodine atoms." In my limited chemestry knowledge I didn't know non radioactive atoms had half lives, but I assumed you meant a single Iodine atom degrades somehow. Maybe you meant it will rapidly form a bond with whatever other atoms are nearby

Who knew this forum would be such a chemistry lesson😁