As I was crafting a small pill container last evening, a question arose.  The pill container is designed to hold a few iodine tablets for my ditch kit.

Since I always thinking "multi-use" for everything ... can iodine tablets serve as the basis of tincture of iodine?  Yes, I know I'll be missing the ethyl-alcohol, but could it serve a disinfectant purpose?  I've red that tincture of iodine can be used to purify water ... I'm assuming the "role reversal" would also be possible.

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