Iodine in food and iodized salt is present in several chemical forms including sodium and potassium salts, inorganic iodine (I 2), iodate, and iodide, the reduced form of iodine [ 4 ]. Iodine rarely occurs as the element, but rather as a salt; for this reason, it is referred to as iodide and not iodine.
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Stands for Graphics Processing Unit.. A GPU is a processor designed to handle graphics operations. This includes both 2D and 3D calculations, though GPUs primarily excel at rendering 3D graphics. Early PCs did not include GPUs, which meant the CPU had to handle all standard calculations and graphics operations.