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which is the correct way to write iodine (i) with an atomic mass of 131
Iodine-131 (131I, I-131) is a radioactive isotope of iodine with an atomic mass of 131.
who discovered iodine-131
Iodine-131 was discovered by Glenn Seaborg and John Livingood in 1938 at the University of California, Berkeley..
what is the half-life of iodine-131
The half-life of iodine-131 is 8.0197 days.

Question: how is the isotope produced
Self-contained rewrite: how is iodine-131 produced