Copper Cycle Lab Report
Copper Cycle Summary
During the copper cycle lab, my partners and I performed a series of reactions on copper powder and observed the changes it underwent. For the first step, we mixed nitric acid and copper powder, and noticed that a yellowish brown gas emerged, along with effervescence. The red solid disappeared and became a blue liquid. We know that we produced copper nitrate, nitrate gas, and water because the only two blue solutions in “A New Language” are copper sulfate and copper nitrate. It would make sense for us to have created copper nitrate, since we mixed copper with nitric acid, not sulfuric acid. The nitrate that we created was the brownish gas that we watched float up during the reaction. In addition, the water came from
During the copper cycle lab, my partners and I performed a series of reactions on copper powder and observed the changes it underwent. For the first step, we mixed nitric acid and copper powder, and noticed that a yellowish brown gas emerged, along with effervescence. The red solid disappeared and became a blue liquid. We know that we produced copper nitrate, nitrate gas, and water because the only two blue solutions in “A New Language” are copper sulfate and copper nitrate. It would make sense for us to have created copper nitrate, since we mixed copper with nitric acid, not sulfuric acid. The nitrate that we created was the brownish gas that we watched float up during the reaction. In addition, the water came from