So in the SciMathics PLP class we were making our own Copper! So first we set off to grab all of our materials and we got to work, and then we took some aluminium foil and dropped it into copper Chloride, a blue compound.
It almost instantly started to get hot and boil into this brown (copper) mass
Once that was done we used some water and then some hydrochloric acid to purify the copper even more and once we took it out of the liquid, we let it settle then picked it up with crucible tongs and burned it on a Bunsen burner, it burned a beautiful green colour.