copper sulphate

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noun

a copper salt found naturally as chalcanthite and made by the action of sulphuric acid on copper oxide. It usually exists as blue crystals of the pentahydrate that form a white anhydrous powder when heated: used as a mordant, in electroplating, and in plant sprays. Formula: CuSO 4

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Words nearby copper sulphate

Copper River, coppersmith, copper spot, copper sulfate, copper-sulfate method, copper sulphate, coppertone, coppery, coppice, copping, Coppola

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How to use copper sulphate in a sentence

You can find fourteen of these copper creations, all initially containing 3,900 liters of liquid apiece, on the Macallan estate.
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But the copper performs another important function: working as a catalyst in the distillation process.
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Why the size and shape of a copper still is at the core of whisky distillation.
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The151-foot newborn waited in the harbor on her 171-foot pedestal, a huge French flag fluttering over her dark copper face.
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After all, there are much larger risks in this world than traces of copper in your water.
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By far the most important of the conjugate sulphates and representative of the group is potassium indoxyl sulphate.
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The vicar's wife sat before a huge book, in front of her were little piles of copper money.
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Beds, in those days, were warmed with copper warming pans, and nightcaps adorned the slumbering heads of both sexes.
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Such a furnace worked there for many years, until copper smelting was removed from Cornwall to Wales.
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The Japanese use both copper and silver pipes, most of them similar in shape and size to those used by the Chinese.
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