Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Iodic acid HIO3 can be obtained as a white solid. It dissolves in water very well but it also exists in the pure state as opposed to chloric acid or bromic acid. Iodic acid contains iodine in the oxidation state +5 and it is one of the most stable oxo-acids of the halogens in its pure state. When iodic acid is carefully heated it dehydrates to iodine pentoxide. On subsequent heating the iodine pentoxide further decomposes giving a mix of iodine oxygen and lower oxides of iodine.
