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Applications - Copper Compounds - Copper Sulphate
Applications - Copper Compounds - Copper Sulphate
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By heating copper sulphide ores to produce copper oxide which is then treated with
sulphuric acid to form copper sulphate.
By slow leaching in air of piles of low grade ore. Bacterial action is sometimes employed
to hasten the process. A solution of copper sulphate drains away from such heaps.
Commercially copper sulphate contains 25 % metallic copper and is sold with a guaranteed
minimum purity of 98 % copper sulphate. It is produced in a number of grades varying from
large crystal lumps, of 25 mm or more in diameter from which it appropriately derives the
name bluestone, to very fine powders of almost the fineness of talcum powder. The four
commonest grades, based on crystal diameter sizes, are:
Large crystals (from 10 mm to 40 mm)