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Iodine
Obtaining iodine
Crystal iodine - Sublimated flat flakes of dry iodine I2, ready to weigh out and use.
Local Chemical supply houses.
Mail order from chemical suppliers, if you have a business you can order it. $60 /pound
Feed and tack stores in rural areas. Horses get a hoof fungus called "thrush" from hanging out in stalls which are wet.
It is used in sheep dip. At the feed and tack you ask for "horse hoof" or "Iodine"
Purification of water, there is a Y2K product marketed at some pool suppliers , and out Camping, Boating, Outdoors backpacking type
places for purifying drinking water the price is more expensive this way.
They are required to take your ID information. and ask what it is to be used for
In many places you may buy up to 8 ounces /person/ 30 days
It is important to find buyers, to keep your name off those ID lists
Many people are willing to make the purchase for you if you give them a little stash and perhaps a bit of cash. Just don't spoil them. The
cost is around $50 for 8 ounces.
Bilbo writes
I am fortunate regarding the I2 I live in Cow Country its no biggee at all to buy it and lots of it.
If I could throw something in to the mix here, when purchasing the I2 from the feed/tackle store, ask the rep about it quite casually. "My
quarter horse has a big black rotten hole in its hoof, the vet/farrier told me some iodine crystal packed in the thrush hole would burn it out.
How exactly do I apply it?" or something to the like. Reps have mundane shitty jobs and a chance to impart some of their wisdom is always
well received.
If you are walking in semi dumb up front chances are you won't be grilled about intended purpose at all.
The straight iodine poultice is considered out of date medicine, many now go with bleach solutions because there are certain contraindications
that can be suffered by the animal due to iodine exposure.
If the sales rep mentions this it will be important that you say the vet said the thrush is so
advanced if not treated right away and drastically the animal could suffer lameness**
Failing all of this like Worlock said in another thread.. mail order $45/pound
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line! (just make sure a trusted friend is the second point of that line)
Luck
Bilbo
Polar pure iodine - looks like small bee bee's used to purify water, this works great.
Formula 2
4 part Lab Procedure as follows.
materials
1) 1000 ml 2% Iodine tincture = 2.5%I+2.5%KI in etOH and H2O =2) 250 ml Muriatic acid = 34.4%HCl
3) 475 ml Hydrogen peroxide = 3% solution of H2O2
4) 1750ml Distilled H2O
In a 1 gallon container (plastic or glass),
mix 1 liter of 2% tincture of iodine
with 250 ml of Muriatic acid
stir and allow to sit for 15 min.
Add 475ml of a 3% hydrogen peroxide
stir and let sit an additional 15 min.
Add 1750 ml distilled H2O
shake and let sit for 15 min more.
An orange water layer appears on top of a dark gray layer of I2.
Pour off most of the the orange water
Add fresh distilled H2O shake and let sit
Pour off most of the the orange water
Wash a total of three times with distilled water
On the last wash pour the I2 into a stack of 5 coffee filters
Wring it dry
roll the iodine ball into 5 dry coffee filters
Wring it dry
Roll it into 5 more dry filters
wring it dry
Put the I2 in a small clean glass jar break up the iodine ball
place the jar of I2 on a piece of cardboard, cover the I2 with a larger jar
put in freezer for several hours
Remove jar of I2, seal it tight, with cellophane then screw on the cap store it in a dark cool environment
Mothballs
Amazing that someone would catch moths and put their balls in a box to sell?
Potential problems Not rinsing the I2 enough with water to remove the chlorine and salts from the tincture Not drying the I2 out enough
and adding it too wet to your reaction. If in doubt at all re-wash the iodine with distilled water in a filter and wring out, The iodine is only very
slightly soluble in water, you lose very little washing with water. If it is not clean and dry you can lose a lot more in a failed reaction.
The Solution
There are only three chemicals involved in the reaction, make sure they are top notch and your OK
1. Ephedrine - the free base reacts stronger than the HCl salt
2. Iodine - use more if you are not getting a reaction 1(E) : 2(I2)
3. Phosphorus- use more if doing a small amount 1(E) : 0.8(RP)
It hurts to see a couple of hundred dollars in chemicals go to pieces in front of your eyes..
So do not get fiendish and attempt a flawed batch, think first, before acting rashly
Sublimating Iodine-
Cold Finger - used to sublimate iodine from a flask. Is the way to purify your Iodine crystals.
The theory is that as iodine is heated it skips from a solid to a gas
when cooled it returns from the gas directly back to a solid.
Several test tubes are used. When one becomes damp from moisture, it can quickly be replaced,
preventing water vapor from messing up your crystals.
Acetone and dry ice are used for the real cold finger you may need
This device using the flask and test tube is one method. A bowl and a plate do not allow you to easily chill ,collect, deal with water
condensation, protect against iodine vapor escape, or add more iodine to be sublimated
Red Phosphorous
Red Phosphorous
well as in other metal treatment applications. Finally, among other things, phosphoric acid has applications in the textile industry, in glass
manufacture, in the purification of hydrogen peroxide and in a host of laboratory applications.
Taken from the 1993 Aldrich catalog handbook
CAS
Compound
Descrip
Amount
Price
7664-38-2,
Phosphoric Acid
500 g
$ 12.90
1359-36-2,
Phosphorous Acid
99%
500 g
$ 19.40
7723-14-0
White Phosphorus
99+% in water
100g
$ 71.50
7723-14-0
99.999%
25 g
139.00
7723-14-0
Red Phosphorus
powder
99%
500 g
$ 23.80
1314-56-3
Phosphorus pentoxide
500g
$ 25.80
6303-21-5
Hypophosphorus Acid
500g
$ 26.40
It is not illegal, in all states but it is watched just like Iodine and large amounts of ephedrine.
Get some and you will always have some, not much gets used up, it does become coated with organics
you can clean those off easy. You can re-use it over and over again.
No, you cannot get it out of picture tubes on TVs
Yes, you can get it off match strikers
Yes, you can get it from road flare strikers
Yes you can walk into a Chem. supply house and buy 4 oz for $50
Yes you can mail order it to your business for very much cheaper. $95 for 2 kilos
Yes it is found in fireworks
If you can get over this hurdle your headin' for the finish line.
Ask, beg, or buy the information on where to get it for it from anyone you can, you will get some.
It is out there, others do it so can you. Keep after it, eventually someone will tell you where to get it.
Amorphous Red Phosphorus 99.5% pure,
Help out a dealer, ask him to ask the cook where to get it. No one wants to tell, it is a secret.,
I once had someone walk into a Lab supplier and buy 4 oz. Now some people bring me kilos every now and then
Mail order from on the web, check the posts in the hive