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Hints and Tips

This page allows you to share useful hints and tips. Please send any you want to share with other SAC technicians to uyseg@york.ac.uk

You may also find the Recipe cards and Hazcards produced by CLEAPSS useful.  

This recipe was sent in by Kim Rochester, a technician at Cramlington Learning Village


Preparation of iodine solution

To speed up the making of iodine dissolve the potassium iodide in about 20 ml of water then dissolve the iodine crystals in this solution (the iodine dissolves rapidly in the concentrated KI solution) then make up the desired solution to the correct volume.