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Show World's Iodine Supply Gathered From the Sea The eoiuniereial supply of Iodine is almost entirely obtained .'mm seaweeds. sea-weeds. In some of the latter particularly par-ticularly the giant help, known to scl-once scl-once as Mari-orysris. meaning "big built" the coiveiitration of Iodine Is extraordinary. That marine plant. eiior'oiis in size, an'-hored to the sea bottom hy a stom hundreds of feet long, with h vast flouting fron'i of leaves, i-ontailis o-. er one fourth of 1 per loni of iodine. TIukc giant seaweeds are hh-al carriers car-riers of iodine tor human uses. Medicinal Medi-cinal extnwts made from them ar? already standardized. and have pro ed most valuable. But the kelps, vasily abundant, shouid yield valuable food products. ' hey contain all the worth while minerals tiiat the ocean holds in solution, and may be re-carded re-carded as marine vegetables neglected through ignorance. |