The Synthesis of Cuprous Chloride

In this laboratory, we will synthesizeCuprous Chloride(WSDTY), CuCl, by direct oxidation of elemental Copper metal. Cuprous Chloride is a white Cu+ salt of Copper which will easily oxidize to the blue Cu2+ salt if allowed to come into contact with Air while moist. As we will synthesize this compound in an aqueous environment, we will need to take special precautions against its oxidation to Cu2+. Copper metal is one of nine Elements known since antiquity; carbon, sulfur, iron, tin, lead, mercury, silver and gold being the others. This is due to the fact that the smelting of Copper containing ores to isolate the pure metal was one of the first smelting processes to be discovered;with peoples initially smelting the Carbonate ores, and then the Sulfides.

Cuprous Chloride is a yellowish-brown powder (the anhydrous form) or a green crystalline solid (the dihydrate). Noncombustible but hydrogen chloride gas may form when heated in a fire. Corrosive to aluminum. Used to manufacture other chemicals, in dyeing, in printing, in fungicides, as a wood preservative.

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