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Description: | Copper Sulphate (written on a small paper label stuck to the neck of the jar)
Copper (written on a paper label stuck to the neck of the reagent jar) MANU Unsigned. circa 1850 This is one of a series of four stoppered glass jars containing copper and two other varieties of its salts The crystals are royal blue, fairly large and irregular. This form of the salt, copper sulphate pentahydrate CuSO4.5H2O is prepared by reacting copper and dilute sulphuric acid. The crystals are extracted from the solution by evapouration in a series of recrystallizations in order to improve the purity. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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