Hydroxide
The solubility in water of the other hydroxides in this group increases with increasing atomic number. Magnesium hydroxide Mg(OH) is a strong base (up to the limit of its solubility, which is very low in pure water), as are the hydroxides of the heavier alkaline earths: calcium hydroxide, strontium hydroxide, and barium hydroxide. A solution or suspension of calcium hydroxide is known as limewater and can be used to test for the weak acid carbon dioxide. The reaction Ca(OH) + CO Ca + + OH illustrates the basicity of calcium hydroxide. Soda lime, which is a mixture of the strong bases NaOH and KOH with Ca(OH), is used as a CO absorbent.
Hydroxide
"Ortho"-periodic acid can lose all its protons, eventually forming the periodate ion [IO]. It can also be protonated in strongly acidic conditions to give the octahedral ion [I(OH)], completing the isoelectronic series, [E(OH)], E = Sn, Sb, Te, I; "z" = −2, −1, 0, +1. Other acids of iodine(VII) that contain hydroxide groups are known, in particular in salts such as the "meso"periodate ion that occurs in K[IO(OH)]·8HO.