Tincture of iodine

Inorganic Chemicals in Drinking Water

Published in Joseph Cotruvo, Drinking Water Quality and Contaminants Guidebook, 2019

The element I2 is a black crystalline solid, but its vapors are violet and solutions are brown to purple. It is reactive and found in nature in brines as iodides and iodates. It forms a blue complex with starch. Iodine has been used as a water disinfectant and as a biocide as tincture of iodine in medical applications.

Iodine tomographic images derived from a small number of X-ray transmission measurements using material thickness distributions

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Published in Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 2022

Ikuo Kanno, Daiki Ito

Measurements were performed using the phantom as shown in Figure 2. This phantom consisted of a PMMA pipe with inner and outer diameters of 24 and 30 mm, respectively, a polyoxymethylene (POM, CH2O:7.02) rod with a 14 mm diameter, and two resin straws of 5 mm diameter filled with diluted iodine tincture with iodine concentrations of 23 and 45 mg/ml. Al foil with a thickness of 11 μm was wrapped 32 turns around the PMMA pipe resulting in an overall thickness of 0.35 mm. The PMMA and POM were used as materials to simulate normal tissues, while the iodine tincture and Al simulated iodine contrast agent and bone, respectively.

Tincture of iodine

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