Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or containing copper, especially with valence 1.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
cupric .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion.
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- adjective Of or of the nature of
copper . - adjective chemistry Containing copper with an
oxidation number of 1.
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- adjective of or containing divalent copper
Etymologies
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Examples
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Boiling with nitric acid converts the lower into the higher oxide; and powerful reducing-agents, such as cuprous chloride, have the opposite effect.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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Berkeley used to have an experiment in which Chem 1 students prepared cuprous sulfide and determined its stoichiometry ratio of Cu:S.
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In the first place, it was found that, because of the reducing action of metallic copper on cupric sulphate to form cuprous sulphate, too little copper was deposited in the copper coulometer to correspond to the current.
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He continued on into the field of rectification and photo-effects at semiconductor surfaces, beginning with a study of rectification at the surface of cuprous oxide.
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The photo-electric action of light belongs principally to the "chemically active" rays; this is shown by the fact that the production of electricity is extremely small behind a glass colored with cuprous oxide, and behind a film of a solution of quinine sulphate; while it is not appreciably diminished by a film of a solution of alum.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various
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~ Copper, like iron, forms two series of compounds: in the cuprous compounds it is univalent; in the cupric it is divalent.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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His solution differs from that of Fehling in containing ammonia, which dissolves the cuprous oxide as soon as it is formed, yielding a colorless solution.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various
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~ Silver forms two oxides but only one series of salts, namely, the one which corresponds to the mercurous and cuprous series.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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Yellow to brick-red cuprous oxide forms as a heavy precipitate if glucose is present.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various
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When so altered, the solution will yield a more or less copious precipitate of cuprous oxide on merely boiling, and quite independent of the presence of glucose.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various
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