Re: Copper Sulfate, Calcium Chloride, Aluminium, what happened?



On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:44:42 -0400, digikey@xxxxxxxxx (Dan Akers)
wrote:

>madalch@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote;
>"Or the CaCl2 simply absorbed moisture from the air, thus making the
>aluminum damp. This allowed the copper sulphate to dissolve and attack
>the aluminum."
>______________________________________
>Re:
>Thanks, that's what I suspected and it does make sense... I will try it
>again in a more controlled manner in the near future as I am curious as
>to what the gas (the sizzle that I heard) being liberated was; chlorine?
>hydrogen?
>
>-Dan Akers


Many years ago I amazed myself with wrapping some CuCl2 in aluminum
foil and dropping it inot a test tube of water, trying to determine
what gas was being given off. I finally decided it was steam.
.



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