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copper sulfate

 
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A poisonous blue crystalline copper salt, CuSO4·5H2O, used in agriculture, textile dyeing, leather treatment, electroplating, and the manufacture of germicides.


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copper sulfate, common name for the blue crystalline heptahydrate of cupric sulfate, in which copper has valence +2. It may also refer to cuprous sulfate (Cu2SO4), in which copper has valence +1.

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Meaning #1: a copper salt made by the action of sulfuric acid on copper oxide
  Synonyms: copper sulphate, cupric sulfate, cupric sulphate

 
 

 

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