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This acid is not so poisonous as hydriodic or iodic acids.

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  1. Containing iodine: as, iodic silver.
  2. Iodic acid HIO3, an acid formed by the action of oxidizing agents on iodine in presence of water or alkalis. Iodic acid is a white semitransparent solid substance, which is inodorous, but has an astringent, sour taste. It is very soluble in water, and detonates when heated with charcoal, sugar, and sulphur. Deoxidizing agents reduce it partly to hydriodic acid, which then reacts upon the remaining iodic acid to form iodine and water. It combines with metallic oxids, forming salts, which are named iodates, and these, like the chlorates, yield oxygen when heated, and au iodide remains.

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  • This acid is not so poisonous as hydriodic or iodic acids. —  Insectivorous Plants
  • The iodic acid test is very delicate, but requires great care, and may be used in the presence of organic matter. —  Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
  • The _nitric acid_ used should be free from hydrochloric, sulphuric, iodic and telluric acids. —  A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
  • It lies close beneath the surface, and follows for a length of one hundred and fifty miles the margin of a grand basin or plain; this, from its outline, manifestly must once have been a lake, or more probably an inland arm of the sea, as may be inferred from the presence of iodic salts in the saline stratum. —  The Voyage of the Beagle
  • But he whose sympathies with nature have taught him to feel that there is a fellowship between all God's creatures; to love the brilliant ore better than the dull ingot, iodic silver and crystallized red copper better than the shillings and the pennies forged from them by the coiner's cunning; a venerable oak-tree than the brandy-cask whose staves are split out from its heart-wood; a bed of anemones, hepaticas, or wood violets than the leeks and onions which he may grow on the soil they have enriched and in the air they made fragrant -- he who has enjoyed that special training of the heart and intellect which can be acquired only in the unviolated sanctuaries of nature, "where man is distant, but God is near" -- will not rashly assert his right to extirpate a tribe of harmless vegetables, barely because their products neither tickle his palate nor fill his pocket; and his regret at the dwindling area of the forest solitude will be augmented by the reflection that the nurselings of the woodland perish with the pines, the oaks, and the beeches that sheltered them. —  The Earth as Modified by Human Action
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