{"id":10014,"date":"2024-03-11T12:28:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T11:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/?p=10014"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:18:15","slug":"whats-copper-sulphate-monohydrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/whats-copper-sulphate-monohydrate\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s copper sulphate monohydrate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/products\/copper-sulphate-monohydrate\/\">Copper sulphate monohydrate<\/a> is a pure chemical obtained by dehydrating microcrystalline snow copper sulphate pentahydrate. It is a white free flowing powder that does not cake and there is no anti-caking agent added.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the dehydration process, which removes four water molecules, we obtain a product with an higher concentration of copper in the same volume. The minimum concentration of copper is, in fact, about 40 % higher than in the penta-hydrated form.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is copper sulphate monohydrate used for? <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The main use of copper sulphate monohydrate is in agriculture as an active substance to produce, for example, fertilizers containing copper salts.<\/p>\n<p>It is also highly valued in those industrial processes that require a high concentration of copper and do not like the presence of additives in the copper salt.<\/p>\n<p>Industries include the mining industry or the galvanic industry for the cathode solutions of copper\/zinc cells; in the manufacture of special materials used in the building industry for their anti-fungi and anti-mould characteristics brought about by the addition of small quantities of copper ions.<\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MANICA_copper-based-chemicals-catalogue.pdf\">industry catalogue<\/a> to discover all copper based products.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Copper sulphate monohydrate is a pure chemical obtained by dehydrating microcrystalline snow copper sulphate pentahydrate. It is a white free flowing powder that does not cake and there is no anti-caking agent added. Due to the dehydration process, which removes four water molecules, we obtain a product with an higher concentration of copper in the&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/whats-copper-sulphate-monohydrate\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products-application"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10020,"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014\/revisions\/10020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}