Iodic acid

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Iodic acid, HIO3, is a moderately strong oxoacid of iodine. It forms a series of salts called iodates.

Iodic acid may be prepared by the oxidation of suspensions of iodine in water, either by electrolysis or with nitric acid.[1] Unlike chloric and bromic acids, it can be isolated as a white crystalline air-stable solid. The solid decomposes on heating, first to HIO3·I2O5 at about 100 °C, then to iodine pentoxide at about 200 °C.

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References

  1. Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, A. Chemistry of the Elements; Pergamon: Oxford, 1984; p 1010. ISBN 0-08-022057-6.

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