Iodine tincture is not a recommended source of solely-nutritional iodine.

The iodine tincture (available from drug, discount, and grocery stores,) will show the weight% of iodine present.

Melsens applied the principle of the Faraday cage to lightning conductors and invented iodine tincture for disinfection.

Thus, iodine tincture solutions are characterized by the presence of alcohol, and about the same amount (weight % content) of elemental iodine as iodide.

Tincture of iodine or iodine tincture is an antiseptic, it is also called weak iodine solution.

"If available, a virucidal antiseptic such as povidone-iodine, iodine tincture, aqueous iodine solution, or alcohol (ethanol) should be applied after washing.

Iodine, including elemental iodine crystals and chemical mixtures containing greater than 2.2% concentration of iodine (e.g., strong iodine tincture and Lugol's iodine)