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- noun 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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- noun US Alternative spelling of
copper sulphate .
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- noun a copper salt made by the action of sulfuric acid on copper oxide
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ruzuzu commented on the word copper sulfate
From the GNU Webster's 1913 definition for water of crystallization:
"the water combined with many salts in their crystalline form. This water is loosely, but, nevertheless, chemically, combined, for it is held in fixed and definite amount for each substance containing it. Thus, while pure copper sulphate, CuSO4, is a white amorphous substance, blue vitriol, the crystallized form, CuSO4.5H2O, contains five molecules of water of crystallization."
May 1, 2012