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Do I have partial hydrolysis of copper acetate?

CHRIS25 - 20-3-2014 at 04:20

I have a few hundred 0,5 - 1mm copper acetate crystals coloured deep blue black in a solution mixed with thousands of very tiny particles of bright turquoise colour (that are still evapourating after many days). Is the latter expected? I do believe I added enough acetic acid during the process having taken the advice of many comments on this forum from the past. But I do not know how to recognise hydrolysis in this instance, googling images turned up nothing in this respect. Thankyou.

Töilet Plünger - 23-3-2014 at 20:40

I doubt there was a hydrolysis. Copper acetate is bright turquoise when finely divided. This happened when I tried to grow my own copper acetate crystals. These bits should redissolve easily.