When copper powder is heated in a china dish a black coating is formed over reddish brown surface of copper?

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(i) When copper powder is heated in a china dish, the surface of copper powder becomes coated with a black-coloured substance. This black substance formed on the surface is because of the process called surface oxidation. Upon heating, the copper metal melts gradually and turns black on the surface.

When the copper powder is heated it gets coated with?

When Copper (Cu) is heated , the oxygen from the air combines with copper to form copper(II) oxide. The colour of copper changes to black . Therefore, the coating formed on the surface of copper is a copper oxide or cupric oxide (CuO).

When copper powder is heated does it change color?

The color of the heated copper powder becomes black when air is passed over it because of its reaction with oxygen i.e. air. When it reacts with oxygen it forms copper oxide which is black in color.

When copper powder is heated it turns due to the formation of copper oxide?

When the copper powder is heated in a china dish the copper powder surface becomes coated with black colour substance due to the formation of copper oxide by surface oxidation. The black colour is due to the formation of this copper (II) oxide as the copper comes in contact with the air.

What happens when copper powder?

When copper metal is heated in presence of oxygen, it gets oxidised to form black colour copper oxide.

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This black substance formed on the surface is because of the process called surface oxidation. Upon heating, the copper metal melts gradually and turns black on the surface. This is because the copper powder present in the china dish reacts with the atmospheric oxygen and forms copper (II) oxide.

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Dear student,

1) The black coloured substance is formed due to the reaction of Cu with air. 

2) Copper reacts with oxygen present in air to form copper oxide, which is black in colour. The black substance is the copper oxide.

The badness is here........

A. Redox reaction and combination reaction. B. Black substance is Cu(||)O C. Cu+O2-->Cu(||)O D. If we pass hydrogen gas through cuo then it will again get brownish colour due to reduction of cuo

CuO+H2-->h2o+cu

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When Copper powder is heated in a china dish the surface of the copper powder becomes coated with a black colour substance. Why has this black coloured substance formed? What is that black substance? Write the chemical equation of the reaction.