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Procedure for making copper solution

Please send me an information on how to make copper solutions........please.......I need your help!thanks and more power.....

I am a high school student and one of the requirements in order to graduate is to have a research study. My study is entitled Guava fruit Extract and Anthocyanin Pigment as detoxifying agents in water. My study focuses on contaminated waters with heavy metals. I am now in the process of conducting the study. Our researc teacher recommended me to make my own copper and arsenic solution. I am confused. What concentrations will I make?

Aica
Student - Philippines
2005

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2005

Aica,

I'm not sure if it is any of my buisness, but your teacher wants you to make up an arsenic solution? I know here in the U.S.A. arsenic is banned from most plateing shops. Arsenic is very deadly even in small amounts. I believe that they use to use arseic in rat poison years ago. Maybe you should try a search engine for the word Arsenic,or an MSDS sheet if you could get your hands on one. As for a copper solution,the best copper solutions are made with cyanide,as far as I am concerned.....wich also VERY deadly,not to metion dangerous! I would try a search engine for both arsenic and cyanide and look at the dangers involved with both of them before you trying these on your own. I have been in the plateing buisness for 15 years I work with cyanide every day and I am still very cautious working with it.

Good Luck & Stay Safe

Regards,

Brian C. Gaylets
McKinney Mfg. Assa Abloy North America - Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

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2005

You have a lot of work ahead of you before you can worry about chemical make up. I am guessing that you are going to try to determine the effect of quava extract on water containing metals. How do you plan to measure the difference in the metal content before, during and after the tests?
Normally, your metals would be in the low parts per million. Conventional wet chemistry does not work well at these low concentrations. Accurate measurements use sophisticated (expensive) analytical equipment.

I will further guess that quava extract will not convert the metal ions to metal, but will complex them in a low solubility precipitate. This does not solve any environmental problem, it just changes the problem.

If I am wrong, let me know. I am curious.

James Watts
- Navarre, Florida

I am a 5th year chemical engineering student and I am conducting a research on the possibility of Chayote peelings to be used as a sorption medium of copper. In line with this, I am researching on how to prepare copper solution; I am hoping that you will be able to help me.

Lovely Richelle SanJose
- New Lucban Extension, Baguio City Philippines
August 7, 2009