high-risk-not financially safe or secure; a bad investment; high risk investments; anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky; speculative business enterprises. speculative, risky, bad. unsound-not sound financially; unsound banking practices.
Iodine has seven valence electrons. Valence electrons of an atom are located in the outermost shell of the atom and participate in bonding. If an... Become a Study.com member to unlock this answer!
growth and metabolic function. Its chemical symbol is I and its atomic number of 53 on the Periodic Table of Elements. Elemental iodine is two iodine atoms bonded together. Iodide is the ion state of iodine, occurring when iodine bonds with another element, such as potassium. In this form,iodine can be ingested or applied topically (such as with povidone iodine, an iodide). So iodine and iodide are simply different expressions of the same element.