copper sulfate

A poisonous gray-white to blue crystalline copper salt, CuSO₄, used in agriculture, textile dyeing, leather and wood treatment, electroplating, and the manufacture of germicides.

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blue′ vit′riol

a hydrous copper sulfate, CuSO₄∙5H₂O.

[1760–70]

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Noun

copper sulfate - a copper salt made by the action of sulfuric acid on copper oxide

copper sulphate, cupric sulfate, cupric sulphate

blue copperas, blue stone, blue vitriol, chalcanthite - hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulfate

sulfate, sulphate - a salt or ester of sulphuric acid

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Cultures amended with different copper sulfate were harvested after 2 days.

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However, further studies are required for the characterization and identification of the ecotoxicological risk of copper sulfate on tropical fish.

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Lustros Inc (OTCQB:LSTS), a copper miner and the manufacturer of food-grade copper sulfate, disclosed on Tuesday that Lustros Chile SpA has announced that its subsidiary Sulfatos Chile SA closed its first sale of pentahyrdate copper sulfate with a buyer in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Lustros' subsidiary closes first sale of copper sulfate from its facility in Chile

A Copper sulfate is the most common ingredient in a number of root killers, but it can corrode metal pipes over time.

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According to the charges, however, waste chemicals from the factory, including raw copper sulfate, copper with ferric sulfate, ferric sulfate, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, tin-lead, formaldehyde, potassium cyanide and several fuming acids, were left in barrels in a deteriorating building just a few hundred feet from a tributary.

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Copper sulfate can be utilized to stimulate fungal pigment production for commercial spalting applications.

The effects of copper in large-scale single-fungus and dual-fungi wood systems