Copper Sulfate Reactions With Household Chemicals

[GTHaroFITBMX]

is copper borate water-soluble? please repond

[neddy17]

@GTHaroFITBMX no, it isn't!

[yukikohohoho]

does the copper iodide have a brown precipitate or a grey one??

[neddy17]

@yukikohohoho copper iodide is usually sort of a greyish powder, but when first filtered it will be brown due to iodine that is produced

[akoposiregalo09]

how can i make a copper sulfate solution?

[twycross3]

@akoposiregalo09 you don't have to make it. Its widely available at lowes and home depot. Its called root killer. But if you just want to make your own copper sulfate you need to react copper oxide with sulfuric acid. Or if you have a piece of copper that has turned green (thats copper carbonate) wash it in a little bath of sulfuric acid. The carbon dioxide will fizz off and you'll be left with copper sulfate

[twycross3]

@akoposiregalo09 you don't have to make it. Its widely available at lowes and home depot. Its called root killer. But if you just want to make your own copper sulfate you need to react copper oxide with sulfuric acid. Or if you have a piece of copper that has turned green (thats copper carbonate) wash it in a little bath of sulfuric acid. The carbon dioxide will fizz off and you'll be left with copper sulfate. On youtube do a search under "Making Copper Ore from Root Killer and Baking Soda"

[akoposiregalo09]

@twycross3 thank you!!!

[ConorC96]

How did you make the copper sulfate? I'm thinking of mixing sodium bisulfate with copper carbonate:

CuCO3+2NaHSO4---->CuSO4+Na2CO3­+SO2+O2

[neddy17]

@ConorC96 nope! i bought it from a pottery supply store. very cheap

[DrD0000M]

@ConorC96 If you actually want to make copper sulfate, get some Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) and perform electrolysis of it with copper electrodes. This should give you copper sulfate and a magnesium hydroxide precipitate...I think. Iron anode = iron sulfate, zinc = zinc sulfate, etc. If you use an inert anode like graphite or platinum, instead of copper, you will get sulfuric acid.

[mrhomescientist]

I did the same thing you did in some of my earlier videos - I had elemental sodium way before I had any sodium hydroxide :) Really cool reactions! Copper chemistry is so interesting, it's amazing how many colors it can produce!

[twycross3]

What happens if you react copper sulfate with sodium hypochlorite (bleach). When I did the reaction I saw a green solid settle to the bottom and I (thought) I got a whiff of chlorine. Is that copper hypochlorite?

[dukilaki]

sodium metal is poisonus

[DJFamou5]

@dukilaki no, its only reactive ;)

[DrD0000M]

@dukilaki Ha! Good luck trying to eat it in the first place. If it actually made it into the stomach intact, I think you'd get a small amount of sodium chloride (table salt) from the hydrochloric acid and mostly sodium hydroxide (lye) from the water. Plus you'd burp hydrogen gas!

[dukilaki]

@DrD0000M thats cool man but i dont wana eat lye. i wana buro hydrogen gas into lighter.that will be cool

[hkparker]

Cool reactions, good to see. Copper Iodide has a really unexpected color. anyway haha I like how you don't have sodium hydroxide, one of the most basic chemicals (no pun intended), but you seem to have plenty of sodium, where did you get it?

[neddy17]

@hkparker i got it from prolabscientific(dot)com, however it only ships to canada, and they dont appear to sell it anymore

[hkparker]

@neddy17 Thanks, I checked it out but yea they only sell to canada. That sucks 30% hydrogen peroxide is controlled there, but you guys can buy Iodine, which is controlled here. I hate drug makers who ruin the fun for chemists

[mewrox99]

@hkparker

Yeah the colour of copper iodide is weird for a copper compound.

The reason for the color is that copper(II) iodide is really unstable and instantly decomposes to copper(I) iodide and iodine.

2CuI2 = Cu2I + I2

[Fishboy]

awesome vid