Copper is a very good conductor for heat and electricity.
When a copper nail is dropped in a copper sulfate solution, a redox reaction occurs. The copper nail will act as a reducing agent, transferring electrons to the copper ions in the solution. This reaction will cause the copper ions in the solution to plate onto the surface of the copper nail, forming a layer of solid copper.
To electroplate an iron nail with a copper rod, set up an electrolytic cell with the iron nail as the cathode and the copper rod as the anode. Place them in a copper sulfate solution and pass a current through the cell. This will cause copper ions to be reduced at the iron nail, resulting in copper plating on the surface of the nail.
Copper is a conductor of electricity.
Copper pennies are conductors of electricity rather than insulators. Copper is a metal that allows electric current to flow through it easily due to its free-flowing electrons.
Plastics are a good electrical insulators because they are insulators. Electricity could not pass through them unlike copper. Another good example of insulators is rubber.
The iron is a more active metal than copper, so the iron atoms in the nail replace the copper atoms in the copper sulphate solution, so it becomes iron sulfate. The copper atoms will start to build on the iron nail, as well.
If an iron nail is placed in a copper(II) sulfate solution, the iron ions are exchanged with the copper ions, creating iron sulfate and copper (which precipitates out as copper metal). Fe + CuSO4 --> FeSO4 + Cu
When an iron nail is dipped in copper sulfate solution, a displacement reaction occurs. The more reactive iron displaces the less reactive copper from the copper sulfate solution. This results in the iron nail becoming coated with copper, as copper metal is deposited onto the surface of the iron nail. Over time, the iron nail will appear to turn a copper color due to this deposition of copper onto its surface.
In this case, copper ions from the copper sulfate solution will react with the iron in the nail through a redox reaction. The iron will gradually dissolve into the solution, while copper ions will deposit on the surface of the nail, forming a layer of copper on the nail.
Insulators: wood, plastic Conductors: Copper, Gold
The iron nail would stick to a magnet. Copper is not attracted to magnets.
When an iron nail is dipped in the solution of copper sulphate solution , after a while the solution changes into the colour of green becoming iron sulphate and a brown substance is found on the iron nail which is copper so we get to know that the displacement reaction is produced