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Question
State whether the following statement is true or false :
Radioactive isotope of iodine is used for making the medicine called tincture iodine.
Solution
The given statement is false.
The true statement is, iodine-131, the radioactive isotope of iodine is used as a tracer to determine the manner and rate of iodine intake by the thyroid gland in our body.
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