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biggrin.gif posted on 28-6-2019 at 07:04
How to separate copper (l) and (ll) chloride


I tried to make copper chloride by reacting copper hydroxide with HCl. I made copper hydroxide by doing electrolysis of water with copper electrodes.
The result of the process is a mix of copper (l) and (ll) chloride.
So can anyone suggest a method to separate both of them.
Thanks in advance.
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[*] posted on 28-6-2019 at 07:11


Bubble air through it so you don't have to separate anymore.
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[*] posted on 28-6-2019 at 07:18


Add some H2O2 until all solids dissolve.



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[*] posted on 28-6-2019 at 08:10


Dissolve them in hydrochloric acid, then dilute it. The CuCl will precipitate, and the CuCl2 will stay in solution.



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[*] posted on 28-6-2019 at 17:35


I was thinking of adding some ascorbic acid to it so that the CuCl2 gets reduced to CuCl but I can conly find sodium ascorbate. So can i still do it by adding few drops of HCl to the reaction.
By the way thanks for all of your suggestions.
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