On the precipitates from Cupric Sulphate Aqueous Solution at Elevated Temperature

The Reduction Mechanism of Cupric Sulphate Aqueous Solution by Glucose (I)

Abstract

In case of the reduction of cupric sulphate aqueous solution by glucose, it was suggested from thermodynamical view point that at first some precipitates, presumably oxides, hydroxides or hydrated oxides, are formed from the solution upon heating, and subsequently the reduction of these intermediate precipitates should be operative.
The above suggestion was experimentally confirmed and an analysis of the chemical formulae of these precipitates was carried out by X-ray diffraction, chemical, thermal and infrared absorption spectroscopic analysis.