Dig out your labcoat, pull on your safety goggles and sequester a pen or two into your top pocket. In today's lesson, we will learn how to use classroom chemistry to conjure a glittering sapphire ...

WHEN copper sulphate pentahydrate is dehydrated in a vacuum at room temperature, the resulting product, of composition copper sulphate monohydrate, possesses no evident crystal structure as shown by X ...

This outlines one way to carry out the practical using copper(II) oxide powder and dilute sulfuric acid. Eye protection must be worn. 1. Add some dilute sulfuric acid to a small beaker. 2. Add some ...

One of the staples of kitchen chemistry for kids is making sugar crystals or rock candy. Why not? It is educational and it tastes good, too. [Science with Screens] has a different kind of crystal in ...

A scientist-turned-artist has taken dead bees and used them as a scaffold for deep blue copper sulphate crystals. Simon Park, a senior lecturer in microbiology at the University of Surrey, told ...

Speaker one In this practical we will be making a soluble salt called copper sulfate which is used to treat fungal diseases, such as foot rot in cattle. Speaker two Yep, something I struggle with ...