Wiktionary
n. (context US English) (alternative spelling of copper sulphate English)
WordNet
n. a copper salt made by the action of sulfuric acid on copper oxide [syn: copper sulphate, cupric sulfate, cupric sulphate]
Wikipedia
Copper (II) sulfate, also known as cupric sulfate or copper sulphate, is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula Cu SO.
This salt exists as a series of compounds that differ in their degree of hydration. The anhydrous salt is a white powder in its pure form, whereas the pentahydrate (CuSO·5HO), the most commonly encountered salt, is bright blue. Copper (II) sulfate exothermically dissolves in water to give the aquo complex [Cu(HO)], which has octahedral molecular geometry and is paramagnetic. Other names for copper(II) sulfate are "blue vitriol" and "bluestone".
Copper sulfate may refer to:
- Cuprous sulfate, Copper(I) sulfate, CuSO
- Cupric sulfate, Copper(II) sulfate, CuSO
Copper(I) sulfate, also known as cuprous sulfate and dicopper sulfate, is the chemical compound with the chemical formula Cu SO.
Usage examples of "copper sulfate".
The company physicians did not examine the sick but had them line up behind one another in the dispensaries and a nurse would put a pill the color of copper sulfate on their tongues, whether they had malaria, gonorrhea, or constipation.
Ordinary mineral crystals like copper sulfate often have water hitched to their molecules, loosely.
This set of circumstances naturally got us involved with electrolytic refining, where pure copper is plated out of crudely smelted bars in a copper sulfate bath.
Most of these were shades of silver, but cinnabar reds and blues as poisonous as that of copper sulfate were dazzlingly present.
That is, they're dissolved in the sea water, not in pure form, but in compounds, like copper sulfate and gold chloride.
Probably a lot of copper sulfate in this one, to turn it that dark a hue.