Tincture of iodine recommended source of solely-nutritional iodine. Nutritional iodine is better supplied in the form of the less toxic iodide (see SSKI) or iodate salts, which the body can easily convert to thyroid hormone. Nevertheless, the iodide in tincture of iodine used as a water disinfectant does supply more than adequate nutritional iodine, perhaps 30 or more times the recommended daily allowance per liter or quart. Application of tincture or Lugol's to the skin also results in absorption and bioavailability of some moderate fraction of the iodine. Tincture of iodine Tincture of iodine, iodine tincture, or weak iodine solution is an antiseptic.
Iodine monofluoride −45 °C in CClF: It can also be generated by the reaction of iodine with iodine trifluoride at −78 °C in CClF: The reaction of iodine with silver(I) fluoride at 0 °C also yields iodine monofluoride: Iodine monofluoride is used to produce pure nitrogen triiodide: Iodine monofluoride Iodine monofluoride is an interhalogen compound of iodine and fluorine with formula IF. It is a chocolate-brown solid that decomposes at 0 C, disproportionating to elemental iodine and iodine pentafluoride: However, its molecular properties can still be precisely determined by spectroscopy: the iodine-fluorine distance is 190.9 pm and the I−F bond dissociation energy