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copper sulfate

n :  the sulfate of bivalent copper that is best known as the blue crystalline hydrate CuSO4·5H2O, is used as an algicide and fungicide, and has been used medicinally in solution as an emetic but is not now recommended for such use because of its potential toxicity - called also cupric sulfate  .
 
 

 
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