Copper Chloride Lab

Hello,

Just a few days ago, we did a lab in science on copper chloride and aluminum. We started with just a sheet of aluminum foil and mixed in a beaker with a compound mixture of copper and chlorine, but once mixed, it’s called copper chloride.

Once the aluminium had been broken down in the copper chloride mixture, we dumped out the copper chloride and started washing out the broken down aluminum foil.

That’s the water cleaning out the rusted aluminum bits. We did this a few times until the water was clear, and then emptied the beaker. After this process, the copper in the liquid traded places with the aluminum. Then to wash it one more time we used hydrochloric acid. After this, we used tongs to pick out some chunks of the copper and held it over a Bunsen burner. Here is a video:

Burning the copper

The blue flame was from the Bunsen burner and the green was the copper.

See ya.

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