Blue Stone Powder

Label: Blue stone powder

Category: fungicide

Form type: powder

Copper sulfate is a chemical compound of divalent copper (Cu). It is a sulfate salt of copper expressed by the chemical formula CuSO4. It is characterized as anhydrous, in contrast to its hydrated form (CuSO4.5H2O), which is more commonly known as blue stone.

General Applications:

• In agriculture, it is used as a herbicide and bactericide.
• In various crops as a fertilizer, soil enhancer, e.g., wheat before sowing and in the spraying of fruit trees, particularly in viticulture.
• In the production of various pesticides.
• In fabric dyeing.
• As a wood preservative in special dyes, e.g., impregnating telegraph poles, wooden support blocks for railway lines.
• As a leather preservative.
• As an electrolyte in electric cells.
• It is used in galvanoplasty and electrometallurgy due to its easy decomposition into electric current.
• In pharmaceuticals, as a topical antiseptic, fungicide, and bactericide.
• In disinfection of larger areas, camps, hospitals, ships, etc.
• In analytical chemistry as a raw material for producing other copper chemical compounds.