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Definition of Cupric sulphate
1. Noun. A copper salt made by the action of sulfuric acid on copper oxide.
Specialized synonyms: Blue Copperas, Blue Stone, Blue Vitriol, Chalcanthite
Generic synonyms: Sulfate, Sulphate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cupric Sulphate
Literary usage of Cupric sulphate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"Hydrochloric acid dissolves cupric sulphate, with considerable reduction of ...
cupric sulphate is used for the preparation of many blue and green pigments ..."
2. Phytopathology by American Phytopathological Society (1917)
"TABLE 20 Relative toxicity of the cuprammonium washes and cupric sulphate to the
spores oj Plasmopara viticola FUNGICIDE USED LETHAL STRENGTH ..."
3. Handbook of Metallurgy by Carl Schnabel (1898)
"cupric sulphate (CuS04 + 5H20) Crystallised copper sulphate is soluble in 4 parts
of cold water. Heated to 100° C. it loses 4 molecules of water of ..."
4. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius (1897)
"In this process, the ferrous salt changes to ferric salt at the expense of the
cupric sulphate, and the latter is thus reduced to a cuprous salt. ..."
5. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer, Harold Govett Colman, Arthur Harden (1907)
"cupric sulphate and Ammonia.—When a solution of copper sulphate is treated with
ammonia a basic sulphate is first thrown down. ..."
6. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1898)
"We were met with the initial difficulty that cupric sulphate solution deposits
a basic salt when it is boiled: this salt we separated and found to ..."