beautiful copper chloride crystals

[Geo]

ive been condensing my old AP for better storage when i came across this in the bottom of a bucket that had been sealed for months.i broke it apart and stored it in a glass jug with a plastic lid. i covered it in copper chloride solution to keep it from decomposing.

 

[lazersteve]

Those crystals are excellent consumers of copper metal with the aid of muriatic acid and some air. You can mix them up and use the resulting solution as a fresh etch. The true workhorse of Acid Peroxide.

Another use of the crystal is a source of chlorine when heated to 1000C. The by product is Copper I Chloride (acid soluble) and chlorine gas.

Steve

 

[Geo]

Thanks Steve, i knew that it would be useful for something. i would imagine that the crystals is a much purer form of copper chloride because of the absence of all the other metal impurities.