Find out the compounds that would get formed when heating copper carbonate.
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In this experiment, I'll try to find out the compounds that would get formed when heating copper carbonate. The colour of CuO and Cu2O are black and red respectively. Heating copper carbonate strongly will produce copper (ll) oxide and carbon dioxide that will be given off so basically the equation that results from this is: CuCO3 (s) ? CuO (s) + CO2 (g). By heating for about 3g of the green powder of copper carbonate, I should obtain a new compound with the black colour proving the presence of copper (ll) oxide. The volume of the carbon dioxide that will result from heating copper carbonate depends on the mass of copper carbonate. Actually, it is proportional to it: the bigger the mass of copper carbonate the bigger the volume of gas given off and the bigger the mass of the product formed. The time of heating is very...


