Naked Science Scrapbook / Why are copper compounds colourful? - Science Scrapbook 11.03.04

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Copper compounds can be blue, green, yellow, brown and black - so how does it produce so many different colours? We find out the answer to this, plus why copper's flame test is green...

Summary

Copper compounds can be blue, green, yellow, brown and black - so how does it produce so many different colours? We find out the answer to this, plus why copper's flame test is green...

Subtitle: Copper compounds can be blue, green, yellow, brown and black - so how does it produce so many different colours? We find out the answer to this, plus why copper's flame test is green......
Duration: 04:01
Publishing date: 2011-03-04 12:01
Link: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/video/scrapbook/show/2011.03.04/
Contributors: Sarah Castor-Perry, The Naked Scientists; author
Enclosures: http://nakeddiscovery.com/libsyn/Naked_Scrapbook_Copper_Compounds.m4v; video/mp4