Exchange reactions and decomposition

Chloric acid exchanges oxygen at rates which are given by the expression (X = Cl). 

The rate of protonation of bromate ion has been inferred from the kinetic currents observed in the polarographic reduction . The rate coefficients increase slowly with pH (1.0x10 l.mole . sec at pH 1.45, 8.0x10 at 4.55). lodate exchanges oxygen with water relatively easily, and the reaction shows 

CATALYTIC COEFFICIENTS (1. mole- .sec ) for oxygen 25 C EXCHANGE OF lODATE AT 

In fused sodium nitrate-potassium nitrate, decomposition of chlorate and bromate is thought to occur through acid-base reactions fundamentally similar to some which have been proposed for aqueous solutions . The acid used was dichromate and the processes appear to involve the net reaction 

With chlorate, a long and variable induction period was found , unless chloride was also present in the melt, and the rate-determining step may be 

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