Making a Rare and Very Unstable Chemical (and also Potassium Iodate)

In this video I first show my new method for making and purifying potassium iodate from any chlorate or bromate salt. I then use the potassium iodate to make a rare and very unstable heteropentahalide interhalogen salt with the formula KICl4; or potassium tetrachloroiodide.

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As a side note, using a potassium salt as an oxidizer would probably work better than a sodium salt for making iodate. I do like however that using a sodium salt really emphasized how effective my purification process was.
PS: You need STRONG hydrochloric acid for the interhalogen salt solution to be strong enough to crystallize. I tried first with 25% and no matter what I did it would not crystallize.

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