cupric sulphate

1. 1.

   a copper salt made by the action of sulfuric acid on copper oxide

   Synonymscopper sulfatecopper sulphatecupric sulfate

   Broadersulfate

   Narrowerblue vitriol

Questions about cupric sulphate

What does cupric sulphate mean?

cupric sulphate means "a copper salt made by the action of sulfuric acid on copper oxide".

What is another word for cupric sulphate?

Close synonyms include copper sulfate, copper sulphate, cupric sulfate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cupric sulphate a common word?

cupric sulphate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.