Assertion: elemental iodine | /r/HasProperty | toxic
Facets:
value: clearly
type: DEGREE
value: moderately
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Elemental iodine (I 2 ) is toxic if taken orally undiluted.
text: As both USP solutions contain elemental iodine, which is moderately toxic when ingested in amounts larger than those required to disinfect water, tincture of iodine is sold labelled “for external use only,” and used primarily as a disinfectant.
text: But, while elemental iodine clearly was toxic, Coindet was on the right track, and during the 19th century by a process of one step forward two steps back the hypothesis gradually gained credence as experiments using the more palatable salt, potassium iodide, showed that goitres could be reversed.
text: Elemental iodine, I 2 , is toxic, and its vapour irritates the eyes and lungs.