How can you purify impure copper using electrolytic refining?
Answers
Answered by
2
Copper can be extracted from its ore by heating it with carbon. Impure copper is purified by electrolysis in which the anode is impure copper, the cathode is pure copper and the electrolyte is copper sulphate solution. An alloy is a mixture of two elements, one of which is a metal.
Answered by
1
Electrolytic refining of copper
On passing electric current, impure copper from the anode dissolves and goes into copper sulphate solution and pure copper from copper sulphate deposits on cathode. Thus pure copper metal is produced on the cathode.
Similar questions