Top tips from David Boyce and his class, who have cultivated a 3kg single copper sulfate crystal A classic school experiment involves growing copper sulfate crystals. Allowing water to slowly ...

While Boyce’s crystal may be the largest single crystal of copper sulfate, students at the Kurfrüst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium in Germany hold the record for overall size. Their polymorphic crystal reached a ...

There are a number of ways that you could produce salts in Chemistry. This is an outline of the required steps to undertake one of these methods. It is important in this practical activity to safely ...

Today we're (micro)-machining glass with a fiber laser. Using a copper sulfate solution, we can etch glass with a pulsed ...

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 ...