Definition of Cupric acetate

1. Noun. A blue or green powder used as a paint pigment.

Exact synonyms: Verdigris
Generic synonyms: Pigment
Derivative terms: Verdigris

Medical Definition of Cupric acetate

1. Cu(CH3COOH)2-H2O;a stimulating local caustic to ulcers. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cupric Acetate

cuppiness
cupping
cuppings
cuppy
cupr-
cuprammonium
cuprate
cuprated
cuprates
cupration
cupremia
cupreous
cuprian
cupric
cupric acetate (current term)
cupric arsenite
cupric chloride
cupric citrate
cupric oxide
cupric sulfate
cupric sulphate
cupriferous
cuprite
cuprites
cupriuresis
cuprizone
cupro-
cuproammonium
cuproan

Literary usage of Cupric acetate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1853)
"When immersed in water, it is resolved into yellow hydrated cuprous oxide and monobasic cupric acetate, the latter gradually forming and dissolving as the ..."

2. Methods of Organic Analysis by Henry Clapp Sherman (1905)
"For the detection of dextrose Barfoed used a slightly acid solution of cupric acetate in place of the Fehling solution. Lieben attempted to determine ..."

3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"There are two varieties of this substance, the blue and the green, the former consisting almost wholly of dibasic cupric acetate, the latter of the ..."

4. A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1873)
"cupric acetate yield*, by destructive distillation, strong acetic acid containing ... 3 aq.; it may be formed by digesting normal cupric acetate with the ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"It serves excellently after treatment with cupric acetate in suitable cases. ... cupric acetate and Acetic Acid.—I have experimented with the object of ..."

6. Foods and Sanitation: A Text-book and Laboratory Manual for High Schools by Edith Hall Forster, Mildred Weigley (1914)
"Test for Tannin with cupric acetate Make a saturated solution of cupric acetate by boiling 1 gram of cupric acetate in 50 cc of water. ..."

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