gurlen
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how to produce Cu2O at home
one of my friend said me to produce Cu2O at home i have to heat Cu nearly 3 hours on a electricity heater
is it true or not.
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It would have to be finely-divided to begin with, and with an adequate oxygen supply.
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Do electrolysis with copper in salt-water wash the water and stuff away then you are left with cu2o
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When you do that, you get Cu(OH)2. I've tried it.
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ok but i didnt understand wihich one is true if i elctrosis it in salt water will it be Cu2O or not and my Cu2O has to be stick. thank you every body
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yok subcekt felan
First coppers surface gets black, you take away the black surface, then you have Cu2O in your hands. And Cu(OH)2 should be this black part mentioned
above.
And you must use not fire for this, u must use 1200 watt electric-oven
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[Edited on 27-12-2004 by zozu]
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in my experience heating Cu gave much more CuO than Cu2O. Maybe I was just heating a lot hotter than neccesary though. If you are really interested
in the compound you may want to look into a reduction of CuCl2 with Cu to form CuCl, and then adding the precipitate to boiling NaOH. This should
give you your desired compound.
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I made copper(I) oxide easily.
First do electrolysis of Cu electrodes in salt water w/ a salt bridge. You will get CuCl.
Then add sodium hydroxide, and a red copper like precipitate will occur.
(To know if its reall Cu2O, leave it in the air and it will turn black)
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IIRC, you can also dissolve CuSO4 in water, mix it with NaOH solution, and add some fructose (and warm) to reduce it to Cu2O. I may have added some
aqueous ammonia too before the fructose. In any case I recall doing this successfully after making a solution "like" Fehling's solution
and reducing it with fructose and ascorbic acid. However, others' experiments here have indicated that you can actually reduce copper compounds
all the way to copper metal with ascorbic acid, depending on conditions, so you might just want to use fructose.
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Yes, I also think the method Polverone described is the easiest - although I don't know about stoichiometries.
Anyway, I think there is yet another method that hasn't been mentioned, which is to heat copper metal (excess) in a copper salt solution (or was
it hydroxide?). This reaction is supposed to be quantitative.
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You can also mix CuSO<sub>4</sub> with NaOH to form the gell-like Cu(OH)<sub>4</sub>, and then dehyrate the gell with heat to
form Cu<sub>2</sub>O.
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FrankRizzo: No, that’s not right. Cu (+IV) appears only with fluorine. Mixing dissolved CuSO4 with NaOH will give Cu(OH)2, which
decompose at 80 °C to CuO.
As Polverone said, the Cu(OH)2 had to be reduced with fructose or glucose to Cu (I). Depending on the temperature, the formed CuOH will decompose to
Cu2O. This variant of the Fehling test is called Trommer test - as it works without the Rochelle salt. It's made by adding CuSO4-solution to
NaOH-solution till a precipitation of Cu(OH)2 remains insoluble. Adding the fructose or glucose and slightly heating causes the formation of CuOH and
latter Cu2O. I think the yield of Cu2O won't be very high, but it's the easiest way to get Cu2O.
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Breaking down Surcose
Is there anyway to breakown surcose to fructose and glucose? I think you might have to use some dehydrating agent right?
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sucrase!
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Boiling with dilute acid will do it.
Citric acid will even do, its the 'invert sugar' method used for fermentation.
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Instead of using glucose or fructose as a reductant you might be able to use ordinary sugar and caustic - you have to be careful with the
concentrations and heating though because its easy to overdo it and start breaking down the reducing sugars that are formed - if your not careful you
get a black gooey caramel type mess that boils over very easily.
Initially the sucrose is hydrolysed to your reducing sugars - the main problem is its easy to go on to dehydrate these.
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