To prepare this reagent, take 700 g of potassium hydroxide/500 g of sodium

hydroxide and add 150 g of potassium iodide/ 135 g of sodium iodide and dissolve in
freshly boiled and cooled water and make up tp 1000 ml.

Dissolve 10 g of sodium azide in 40 ml distilled water and add this solution with
continuous stirring to the cool alkaline iodide prepared previously.