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.
Known since ancient times as copperas and as green vitriol, the blue-green heptahydrate is the most common form of this material. All iron sulfates dissolve in water to give the same aquo complex [Fe(H 2 O) 6 ] 2+ , which has octahedral molecular geometry and is paramagnetic.