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Answers. Best Answer: Copper Nitrate forms blue crystals which dissolve in water. Transition metal salts often form colored crystals. Since the other reaction product is metallic silver precipitate, and everyone knows what silver looks like, the blue is from the copper nitrate by process of elimination.The original solution was not blue because silver nitrate is colorless/slight gray when in solution and Cu(s) is just copper metal.ince the other reaction product is metallic silver precipitate, and everyone knows what silver looks like, the blue is from the copper nitrate by process of elimination.
Blue or Green Stains: Copper. Copper is seldom naturally present in a water supply, and usually results from the corrosion of copper plumbing. Signs of copper contamination in a water supply include: 1  Blue or green stains on showers, sinks, and other plumbing fixtures.s little as 0.3 ppm (parts per million), is enough iron to cause staining. Over time, this iron will react with water and air in a process known as oxidation and form rust, turning relatively new plumbing fixtures into eyesores and shortening their useful lifespans.