Converting Iodine Tincture

Tincture of iodine is iodide salts in alcohol, it is found in supermarkets in small one ounce bottles. Each bottle can generate a little over a gram of I2. The price has shot up from 0 .60 cents to $1.80 / bottle. Tincture comes in 2% or 7%. It is also available at feed and tack stores in pints and gallons. Mail order through horse breeders supply magazines.

Safety

When making Iodine from tincture, wear chemical resistant gloves, eye protection, gas mask, work outside and work over newspaper in case any falls you can easily save it.

Formula one

1 pint 7% tincture iodine
3 pints of hydrogen peroxide
2 oz of HCl
1/2 cup of d-H20

Shake it up in a one gallon jug.
Wait 20 minutes.
Filter through a pantyhose.
Wring out fluids.

Put iodine crystals in a glass jar, and wash four times with distilled water, cover, shake, and pour off the water into a filter.

On the final water wash, wash the iodine into a fresh filter. Wring it out hard. Open up filter roll into a dry filter, and wring out hard. Put crystals in a dark place to dry.

Use a Drying agent like Calcium Chloride store with the I2 in a sealed chamber. You can get this at any Grocery Store. It is for mildew prevention, and is by the moth balls.

I2 is light sensitive and will degrade. When completely dry store in light resistant container.