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Hacer Carbonated Basic

This patent from 1925 describes a process for manufacturing basic copper carbonate. It begins by intimately mixing ground copper sulfate and sodium carbonate in a dry form. This mixture is then added to vigorously agitated water in a controlled manner, at a rate no faster than the rate of formation of the basic copper carbonate. This allows the desired reaction to occur without also forming unwanted basic copper sulfate, producing a uniform product of basic copper carbonate without impurities.

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Hacer Carbonated Basic

This patent from 1925 describes a process for manufacturing basic copper carbonate. It begins by intimately mixing ground copper sulfate and sodium carbonate in a dry form. This mixture is then added to vigorously agitated water in a controlled manner, at a rate no faster than the rate of formation of the basic copper carbonate. This allows the desired reaction to occur without also forming unwanted basic copper sulfate, producing a uniform product of basic copper carbonate without impurities.

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Patented Jan. 6, 1925.

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EUGENE FITZEATRICK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO NICHOLS COPPER COM


PANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A. CORPORATION OF NEW YORKL
PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING BASIC COPPER CARBONATE.
No Drawing. Application ?led February 19,__1923. Serial No. 620,041.
To all whomit may concern: form, and then adding the resulting mixture
Be it known that I, EUGENE F irzrarmoii, to water while vigorously agitating the 50
a citizen of the United States, residing at latter, the rate of addition of the mixture
IVoodhaven, Queens Borough, city and State being no greater than the rate of formation
5 of New York, have inventedcertain new and. of the basic copper carbonate.
useful Improvements in Processes for Manu
facturing Basic Copper Carbonate, of which I Example.
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the following is a speci?cation. _ I grind 100 pounds of copper sulfate crys
My invention relates to a commercially tals until the material is sufficiently com
practicable method of causing a reaction be 'minuted to pass through. a hundred mesh
tween sodium carbonate and copper sulfate sieve, and place this, together with 42 pounds
to produce basic copper carbonate having of ground dry sodium carbonate (com 60
mixed therewith no basic copperv sulfate. mercial soda ash) into a pebble mill; the mill
Basic copper carbonate has the formula is operated for about 15 minutes or until a
n-a CI (CuCO3)2.Cu(OH) 2. It is usually. produced thorough mixing, of the two substances has
by adding sodium carbonate, either dry or m taken place.‘ The resulting mixture is fed
solution, to a solution of copper sulfate. The in a stream into water at room tempera
reaction which takes place between these sub ture while such water is being vigorously
stances when and in so far as it results in the agitated, for instance by stirring. The
20 formation of basic copper carbonate is 'as amount ofv water used should be sufficient to
follows: prevent, the formation of a saturated solu
tion of the sodium sulfate; I prefer to- use
an amount in weightat least ?ve times that
of the mixture to be added thereto. The
In practice, however, the above process stirrers-are operated preferably at the rate
produces, in addition to copper carbonate, a of from 50 to‘ 100 revolutions per minute.
large proportion of. basic copper sulfate, so The rate of addition ofthe mixture, and the
large in fact that at times substantially the degree of agitation of the water, should be
entire copper containing product consists of such that the basic copper carbonate is
30 such sulfate. The proportions of such copper formed as rapidlyv as the ingredients are
carbonate and such copper sulfate vary added. If the material is added at too great
widely in succeeding batches, no two batches a rate of speed the ingredients will not dis 80
being of the same composition. So much of solve and react immediately; the copper
the reaction las results in the formation of sulfate, which is the more readily soluble in
35 the basic copper sulfate is as follows: gredient, will dissolve ?rst and the later
formed solution of sodium carbonate will
then meet a solution of copper sulfate, thus 85
producing a condition which I wish to avoid,
In view of the growing importance of basic namely the formation of basic copper sulfate
4O copper carbonate for use in protecting seed just as in the prior art as hereinabove de
wheat it is highly desirable toproduce such scribed. ' \ v

carbonate free from admixture with a for After the completion of the operation, the 90
eign substance. 3 _ precipitate is allowed to settle out, or is
I have found that the desired uniform ?ltered out, and is washed several times until
product, basic copper carbonate, can be ob the sodium sulfate has been removed. '
tained without admixture-of basic copper sul Of course, my improved method may be
fate, by '1 intimately mixing comminutcd carelessly or‘ inefficiently operated so as to 95
copper sulfate and sodium carbonate 1n dry result in the formation of some basic copper
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sulfate, but such use of my method would of mixture to Water While vigorously agitating
course still be within the spirit of my inven vthe latter, the rate of addition being no
tion. faster than the rate'of formation of the car
I claim: I bonate, substantially as and for the purpose
The method of producing basic copper described.
carbonate which consists in intimately mix In testimony whereof, I-have hereunto set
ing comminuted dry copper sulfate and dry my hand. v -
sodium carbonate, and adding the resulting , EUGENE FITZPATRICK.

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