Chemistry

Cupellation is the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an…

The Waelz process is one of the most efficient technologies, in terms of capacity and quality, able to recover nearly 90% of zinc content from…

Zinc is found in the earth’s crust primarily as zinc sulfide (ZnS). Zinc smelting is the process of converting zinc concentrates (ores that contain zinc) into…

Covellite, also known as ‘covelline’, is a mineral of cupric sulfide (CuS) and is copper ore. This indigo blue mineral is generally a secondary mineral…

Smelting is the process by which a metal is obtained at temperatures beyond the melting point from its ore. It is a process of applying…

Copper(I) sulfide is a copper sulfide, which is known as mineral chalcocite in nature. Copper and sulfur is a chemical compound; it has the chemical…

Copper was one of the earliest elements known to man. It is a chemical element with the symbol ‘Cu’ and atomic number 29. It is a…

Copper (Cu) Nanoparticles are black-brown spherical high surface area metal particles. A copper nanoparticle is a copper-based particle 1 to 100 nm in size. Nanoparticles…

Nickel is a chemical element with the symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a hard, malleable, ductile, lustrous, silver-white metal with a face-centered…

Sodium ethoxide is an organic monosodium salt which contains ethoxide as its counterpart; it’s chemical formula C2H5ONa. Even though impure samples appear yellow or brown,…

Sulfoxylic acid (H2SO2) is an unstable sulfur oxoacid at an intermediate state of oxidation between hydrogen sulfide and dithionic acid. It is also known as…

Disulfur dichloride is amber to sticky, yellowish-red fuming liquid; it penetrates odor. It is the inorganic sulfur and chlorine compound with the formula S2Cl2. Touch…