PERIODICACID

Periodic acid

Periodic acid, or iodic acid is an oxoacid of iodine having chemical formula HIO4 or, in the more common hydrated form, H5IO6. "Periodic acid" is not derived from "period", but from "iodine": per-iodic acid, and it is thus pronounced per-iodic, and not as .

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periodic acid

Noun

  1. HIO4, the oxyacid of iodine in which iodine has the highest oxidation number; it is a white crystalline substance, and a strong oxidizing agent


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