The behaviour of iodic acid, of mixtures of iodic acid and iodine, and of various other iodine compounds as solutes in sulphuric and fluorosulphuric acids has been studied, using mainly cryoscopic and conductimetric techniques. Evidence has been obtained for the existence of polymeric species containing iodine (V), of the oxy-cation IO+, of the iodine cation, I+, in small concentrations in equilibrium with its disproportionation products, and of the cations I3+, I5+ and I2Cl+. The reaction of iodosyl sulphate with disulphuric acid has been studied. Conductimetric studies have been made of solutions of water, potassium nitrate and potassium perchlorate in fluorosulphuric acid. The results of some spectrophotometric and nuclear magnetic resonance experiments are also reported.

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