Attachment energies computed with only Coulomb potentials have been utilized to predict crystal morphologies for NaIO 4 , sodium iodate, and the hydrate NaIO 4 .3H 2 O, sodium iodate trihydrate [actually Na(H 3 O)(IO 3 )(OH) 3 ]. As with other previously studied water-soluble ionic compounds, these two systems exhibit a systematic relationship between the early growth morphology and that of mature crystals; this relationship can in each case be reproduced by adjusting one attachment energy value. Morphology prediction for these two substances is of particular interest because NaIO 4 .3H 2 O is a polar crystal and involves extensive hydrogen bonding, and because obtaining the observed morphology for NaIO 4 involved consideration of solvent desorption at the growing faces.