Copperas Definition

kŏpər-əs
noun
A green, crystalline heptahydrate mineral of ferrous sulfate, FeSO4 · 7H2 O.
American Heritage Medicine

Ferrous sulfate.

Webster's New World
Iron(II) sulfate.
Wiktionary

Origin of Copperas

  • Middle English coperose a metallic sulfate from Old French from Medieval Latin cuperōsa probably short for aqua cuprōsa copper water from Late Latin cuprum copper copper1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Copperas Sentence Examples

  • The first copperas factory in England was established at Queenborough in 1579, by Matthias Falconer, of Brabant.

  • Blue or Roman vitriol ' is copper sulphate; green vitriol, ferrous sulphate (copperas); white vitriol, zinc sulphate; and vitriol of Mars is a basic iron sulphate.

  • Ferrous sulphate, green vitriol or copperas, FeSO47H2O, was known to, and used by, the alchemists; it is mentioned in the writings of Agricola, and its preparation from iron and sulphuric acid occurs in the Tractatus chymico-philosophicus ascribed to Basil Valentine.

  • The first large-scale plant to produce copperas in England was in Parkstone, Poole, in around 1564.

  • Copperas is hydrated ferrous sulfate, also known as green vitriol.

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