NASA Ames Research Center. Using data collected by NASA's SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy and other observatories, an international team of researchers has studied how a particular type of organic molecules, the raw materials for life â could develop in space.
Copper(II) sulfate. Copper(II) sulfate, also known as cupric sulfate, copper sulfate, blue vitriol, or bluestone, is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is CuSO4. It contains copper in its +2 oxidation state. It also contains sulfate ions. It is a blue solid that can kill fungi.
Many other oxyanions form complexes; these include copper(II) acetate, copper(II) nitrate, and copper(II) carbonate. Copper(II) sulfate forms a blue crystalline pentahydrate, the most familiar copper compound in the laboratory. It is used in a fungicide called the Bordeaux mixture.