So there's a bunch of hydrogen molecules around, and some of these iodine gas molecules around.

They both feel like they've completed their 1s shell.

So hydrogen has a covalent bond with another hydrogen.

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B12 which is cobalamin.

We're filling this 1s shell, but look at this.

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Studies have shown that 80 of Americans have a relatively low iodine.

Same thing on the iodine side where you have two iodines.

You have both of them separate.

They have these electrons in between that are keeping them bonded.

So right now, we have H2 plus I2 yielding 2 hydrogen iodides.

And adequate iodine lowers your risk of breast cancer and prostate cancer.

I want to draw iodide and then the hydrogen.

They're much more electronegative than me to hydrogen, so maybe they're kind of attracted here.

Surpass the kinetic so they have enough kinetic energy to get into the activation state, and then they can go to the

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Basically, about half of the world's population is lacking in iron, zinc, iodine and vitamin A.

It's not like you can just take some hydrogen and put it with some iodine and it just magically turns into hydrogen iodide.

And similarly, these guys, they say, hey, wouldn't it be nicer I don't have to be here.

So essentially, we start off here, and this is the H2 plus I2.

Your brain needs iodine to make myelin the insulation for the wiring.

So let's just in our minds come up with an intuitive way that hydrogen and iodine can combine.

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If you have 2 moles of hydrogen, 2 moles of iodine, so it's going to form 2 moles of hydrogen iodide.

It's a much bigger molecule where it's bonded together like this.

It's very easy to say, oh, you know, if you put them together, they're going to react and form the product.

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It also needs iodine to move toxins in particular mercury, lead and heavy metals.

And then here comes along some iodine that has a covalent bond with some other iodine.

So there's a bond right here, and this is why hydrogen is a diatomic molecular gas, and this is why iodine is the same.

And this energy, the difference between the energy we were at when we were just hydrogen molecules and iodine molecules, and the energy we have to get to get this activated state this distance right here this is the activation energy.

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For example, if you have hydrogen gas, it's a diatomic molecule, because hydrogen bonds with itself in the gaseous state, plus iodine gas, I2.

We collude, and actually if you if someone had designed a test for me when I was doing my biology exams, to really understand, to see whether I'd understood more than just kind of putting starch and iodine together and seeing it go blue, and really understood that plants took their mass out of the air, then I might have done better at science.

They don't know whether they want to be here between that hydrogen and this right here between that, and so they kind of enter this higher energy state.

Now if you look at the top of the slide, you will see that two thirds of us do not take in enough calcium, magnesium, zinc or iodine.

And then iodine has seven valence electrons so if they each share one, they'd get complete as well, so let's just review that right now.

So if we get our Periodic Table out, hydrogen's got one valence electron, so if they have two hydrogen atoms, they can share them with each other.