While Boyce’s crystal may be the largest single crystal of copper sulfate, students at the Kurfrüst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium in Germany hold the record for overall size. Their polymorphic crystal reached a ...

Top tips from David Boyce and his class, who have cultivated a 3kg single copper sulfate crystal A classic school experiment involves growing copper sulfate crystals. Allowing water to slowly ...

Speaker one In this practical we will be making a soluble salt called copper sulfate which is used to treat fungal diseases, such as foot rot in cattle. Speaker two Yep, something I struggle with ...

Dig out your labcoat, pull on your safety goggles and sequester a pen or two into your top pocket. In today's lesson, we will learn how to use classroom chemistry to conjure a glittering sapphire ...

A scientist-turned-artist has taken dead bees and used them as a scaffold for deep blue copper sulphate crystals. Simon Park, a senior lecturer in microbiology at the University of Surrey, told ...