The following steps are the steps for naming oxyacids:
1. Identify the oxyanion present
2. The first word of an oxyacid;s name consists of the root of the oxyanion present and the prefix per- or hypo- if it is part of the name and a suffix
3. If the oxyanion's name ends with -ate replace it with -ic, if it ends with -ite replace it with the suffix -ous
4. The second word of the name is always acid
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