IODINE in a Sentence

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For IODINE, below is one of 5 sentences:
Already the hospitals were worrying about the scarcity of quinine, calomel, opium, chloroform and iodine.

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 Meanings and Examples of IODINE
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iodine
 n.  nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination
Classic Sentence:
1  Already the hospitals were worrying about the scarcity of quinine, calomel, opium, chloroform and iodine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  There was no quinine and no iodine at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  Without referring to what he had believed in half an hour before, as though ashamed even to recall it, he asked for iodine to inhale in a bottle covered with perforated paper.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
Example Sentence:
1  The sharp rocks did abrade the skin on her legs, so she put iodine on her abrasions.
2  But now I guess I'd better buy iodized salt, as it sounds like I would not get enough iodine from the disinfectant even if I used it all the time.