Copper Sulphate – Penta Hydrate

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Synonyms Blue Vitriol, Blue Stone
Packing 25/50/1000 Kgs HDPE Bags With inner liners.
Applications Animal feed grade
Standard Animal feed grade
Molecular Formula CuSO4·5H2O
Molecular weight 249.685 g/mol
Density 2.286 g/cm3
CAS No. 7758-99-8

Copper sulphate, is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula cuso4. In a form of CuO or Cu % 24.

Properties

  • Blue color, soluble in water, non-flammable, can gives an irritating fume (gases).
  • Anhydrous cuso4 is white but Penta hydrate is blue because gives a d-d transition in ligands in solution.

Advantages

  • Copper sulfate is used as a fungicide, algaecide, root killer, and herbicide in both agriculture and non-agricultural settings.
  • It is also used as an antimicrobial and molluscicide.

Drawbacks

  • Using too much copper sulfate in the treatment of plants can also disrupt the process of photosynthesis, harming vegetation.

Application

  • In agriculture, it forms the basis for manufacturing the agricultural fungicide Bordeaux mixture and is also used as an algaecide and molluscicide, as well as to correct copper deficient soil.
  • Copper sulphate is used as an additive in animal feed to promote growth and correct copper deficiencies in the animals.
  • Its many industrial uses include applications as a preservative or additive in glues, paints, leather, synthetic fibers, textiles, hair dye products, fireworks, chlorophyll and wrapping paper for fruit, among others.
  • Uses as fungicide and herbicide.
  • Uses as a remove alga from in an aquarium and from swimming pool.

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