Copper Sulfate Pentahydrated

Chemical Formula: CuSO4•5H2O Copper Sulfate is blue crystals or blue, crystalline granules or powder (white when dehydrated). It has a nauseous metallic taste. Soluble in water, methanol; slightly soluble in alcohol and glycerol. It has a slow efflorescence in air. It is obtained by the dilution of sulfuric acid on copper or copper oxide (often as oxide ores) in large quantities with evaporation and crystallization.

Description

Copper sulfate is used in a great variety of industries. Some of its applications are agriculture (soil additive, pesticides, Bordeaux mixture, fungicide), feed additives, germicides, textile mordant, leather industry, pigments, electric batteries, electroplated coatings, copper salts, reagent in analytical chemistry, medicines, wood preservatives, preservation of pulp wood and ground pulps, process engraving and lithography, ore flotation, petroleum industry, synthetic rubber, steel manufacture, treatment of natural asphalt. The anhydrous salt is used as a dehydrating agent.

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