Copper Lab

These past two days our class has been watching the formation of copper from an iron nail placed in Copper Chloride.  To begin, we polished a nail with some steel wool, massed the nail, container that was to hold the nail, and the Copper Chloride. Then we placed the nail in the container with the Copper Chloride and the reaction began fairly quickly with the formation of copper on the scuffed nail. 

Here you can see the reaction beginning as soon as the nail was placed into the Copper Chloride.

The next day, we washed the copper with Hydrochloric Acid, and this was the end result. This picture was taken before the Copper was dried. Once dried,it was a red powder.