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Colour of Copper Carbonate
I made Copper Carbonate by reacting Na2Co3(from washing powder) and CuSO4 and filtered out the solution to get blue Copper Carbonate. But many of the
sites show Copper Carbonate to be green. Have i acquired impure copper salt?
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When I make this, I use sodium bicarbonate instead of the carbonate variety. With carbonate, I usually end up with some flocculant precipitate that's
hard to work with. I recently made some, so here is what I tried: A very dilute solution (pale blue solution) of copper sulfate is stirred at about
70 degrees C, and dilute sodium bicarbonate solution is added drop-wise. Keep it stirring for an hour or two with heat after the addition is
complete, or until it stops bubbling carbon dioxide. A pale, greenish, powder will precipitate. It can be washed by stirring with multiple
beaker-fulls of water, and allowing a few minutes for the powder to settle out. It should settle very easily, and you shouldn't need a filter to
separate it out. I don't remember what color precipitation with sodium carbonate gives, but you might want to try it the other way for comparison.
Also, this isn't true copper carbonate, but some basic form of it.
[Edited on 1-7-2017 by WGTR]
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In my experience, the hydrated form is blue, and the dried form is a more greenish color. You could look a video up on youtube such as the one by
Doug's Lab to use as a color reference.
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You might look through this thread on the color of *cough* basic copper carbonate
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=50822
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Mine looked like this
 
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Ahhh. The beauty of Basic copper carbonate.
Nice job Neme.
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Some people see turquoise color blue, other see it green...
--> Everything is relative ...
--> Especially about taste, smell, love, feelings and colors ...
PH Z (PHILOU Zrealone)
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I regard it as beautiful at the moment because it should be an insoluble product of a mixed gold/copper solution i have in a pot in the lab,
hopefully eliminating the bulk of the copper and also the HCl/HNO3 as highly soluble sodium salts.
Creditz to WGTR for helping short-circuit the research i was doing to find the best way to go (if it works) !
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Thanks a lot everybody
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Umm. Did this last year.
Copper Sulfate.....Tap Water...Plus excess Baking Soda = Insoluble Malachite Green PPT.
I didn't dry it.
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