Bordeaux Mixture Fungicide

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Code: RXSOL-94-1277-025

Other Equivalent Brand CAS No.: 7758-98-7

Short Description:

Copper sulphate, blue stone, blue vitriol are all common names for pentahydrated cupric sulphate, Cu S04 5 H20, which is the best known and the most widely used of the copper salts.

Generic Name: Agricultural Fungicide

Active Matter: 98-99

Bordeaux Mixture Fungicide

Application:

Bordeaux Mixture is a combination of hydrated lime and copper sulfate. Bordeaux Mixture is also a mixture of CuSO4 and hydrated lime(Ca(OH)2). Copper sulfate is a fungicide used to control bacter

ordeaux Mixture is a combination of hydrated lime and copper sulfate.

Bordeaux Mixture is also a mixture of CuSO4 and hydrated lime(Ca(OH)2).

Copper sulfate is a fungicide used to control bacterial and fungal diseases of fruit, vegetable, nut and field crops. Some of the diseases that are controlled by this fungicide include mildew, leaf spots, blights and apple scab. It is used in combination with lime and water as a protective fungicide, referred to as Bordeaux mixture, for leaf application and seed treatment. It is also used as an algaecide, an herbicide in irrigation and municipal water treatment systems, and as a molluscicide, a material used to repel and kill slugs and snails. It is also used as a raticide.

IT'S TOXICITY;

CuSO4 is acutely toxic and usually doesn't affect a conscious person as after ingestion due to its irritant activity vomiting takes place. It may cause conjunctivitis and anaemia when exposed to the eyes and skin.

 
IT'S WORKING;

Copper-based fungicides work by coating the plant leaf surface with minuscule particles of the active ingredient. These particles react with moisture on the leaf surface and release copper ions that kill bacteria and prevent fungal spores from germinating 

Using Procedure:

Uses of Bordeaux Classification Applications Agriculture   Major uses Preparation of Bordeaux and Burgundy mixtures for use as fungicides 

Classification	Applications
Agriculture
Major uses	Preparation of Bordeaux and Burgundy mixtures for use as fungicides
	Manufacture of other copper fungicides such as copper-lime dust, tribasic
	copper sulphate, copper carbonate and cuprous oxide
	Manufacture of insecticides such as copper arsenite and Paris green
	Control of fungus diseases (see below)
	Correction of copper deficiency in soils
	Correction of copper deficiency in animals
	Growth stimulant for fattening pigs and broiler chickens
	Molluscicide for the destruction of slugs and snails, particularly the snail host of the liver fluke
Other uses	Seed dressing
	Soil steriliser, e.g. Cheshunt compound (a mixture of copper sulphate and ammonium carbonate) to prevent "damping-off" disease of tomato, etc.
	Control and prevention of foot rot in sheep and cattle
	Bacteriastat for addition to sheep dips
	Disinfectant in prevention of the spread of swine erysepelas and white scours in calves
	Control of scum in farm ponds
	Plant nutrient in rice fields
	Preservative for wooden posts, wooden buildings, etc.
	Preservative for wooden fruit boxes, planting baskets and other containers
	Ingredient of vermin repellents, e.g. for application to bark of trees against rabbits
	Stimulant of latex yield on rubber plantations
	Protection against algal growths on flower pots
Public Health and Medicine
	Destruction of algal blooms in reservoirs and swimming pools
	Prevention of the spread of athletes foot in warm climates, by incorporation in the flooring mixture of swimming baths
	Control of bilharzia in tropical countries, as a molluscicide
	Prevention of malaria, in the preparation of Paris green for use against mosquito larvae
	Antiseptic and germicide against fungus infections
	Catalyst or raw material for the preparation of copper catalysts used in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products
Industry
Adhesives	Preservative in casein and other glues
	Additive to bookbinding pastes and glues, for insecticidal purposes
	Additive to animal and silicate glues to give water resistance
Building	Timber preservative and in the preparation of other wood preservatives, e.g. oil based copper naphthenates and water based copper/chrome/arsenic for the
	prevention of woodworms and wood rots
	Ingredient of plaster to prevent fungus infection, e.g. to prevent the spread of dry rot
	Ingredient of concrete, both as a colouring matter and as an antiseptic, e.g. for use in and around swimming pools
	Modification of the setting of concrete
	Protection against lichens, moulds and similar growths on asbestos cement roofing and other building materials
	Control of the growth of tree roots in sewers
Chemical	Preparation of catalysts for use in many industries
	Purification of gases, e.g. removal of hydrogen chloride and hydrogen sulphide
	Precipitation promoter in purifying zinc sulphate solutions
	Precipitation of alkaloids as double salts from crude extracts
	Source of other copper compounds such as copper carbonate silicate/arsenite/
	aceto-arsenite/resinate/stearate/tartrate/oleate naphthenate/chromate/chlorate
	/alginate/fluoride/hydroxide, cuprous oxide/chloride/cyanide and
	cuprammonium compounds
Decorative trades	Colouring glass
	Colouring cement and plaster
	Colouring ceramic wares
	Alteration of metal colours, e.g. darkening of zinc, colouring aluminium
Dyestuffs	Reagent in the preparation of dyestuffs intermediates
	Catalyst or raw material for the preparation of copper catalysts, e.g. preparation of phenols from diazo compounds, preparation of phthalocyanine dyes
Leather and	Mordant in dyeing
	Reagent in tanning processes
Metal and	Electrolyte in copper refining
electrical	Electrolyte in copper plating and electro forming
	Electrolytic manufacture of cuprous compounds, e.g. cuprous oxide
	Constituent of the electrodes and electrolytes in batteries
	Electrolyte in the manufacture of copper powder
	Electrolyte in aluminium plating and anodising
	Copper coating steel wire, prior to wire drawing
	Pickling copper wire, etc., prior to enamelling
	Providing a suitable surface for marking out iron and steel
Mining	Flotation reagent in the concentration of ores, e.g. zinc blende
Paint	Raw material for the manufacture of copper naphthenate and other copper compounds for use in anti-fouling paints
	Preparation of certain varnish or paint dryers, e.g. copper oleate, copper stearate
	Preparation of certain pigments, e.g. copper chromate, copper ferrocyanide, copper phthalocyanine
Printing	Etching agent for process engraving
	Electrolyte in the preparation of electrotype
	Ingredient of printing inks
Synthetic rubber	Preparation of catalysts used in cracking certain gaseous and liquid petroleum
and petroleum	Fractions
	Preparation of cuprous chloride, used in the purification of butadiene and in the separation of acetylene derivatives
	Preparation of catalysts used in chlorinating rubber latex
	Purification of petroleum oils
Textiles	Preparation of copper compounds for rot-proofing canvas and other fabrics
	Rot-proofing sandbags
	Mordant, especially in calico printing
	Cuprammonium process for the production of rayon
	Production of aniline black and diazo colours for dyeing
	"After coppering" to increase the fastness of dyes
	Catalyst in the manufacture of cellulose ethers and in cellulose acetylation
Miscellaneous	Improving the burning qualities of coke
	Laboratory analytical work
	Ingredient of laundry marking ink
	Dyeing of hair and horn
	Ingredient of hair dyes of the phenylene diamine or pyrogallol type
	Preparation of chlorophyll as a colouring material for food stuffs
	Imparting a green colour in fireworks
	Activator in the preparation of active carbons
	Preservative for wood pulp
	Preservation of fishing nets and hides on trawls
	Obtaining a blue-black finish on steel
	Treatment of carbon brushes
	Ingredient of the solution used for preserving plant specimens in their natural colours
	Impregnation in fruit wrapping papers to prevent storage rots

Uses of Copper Compounds: Table B - Plant Diseases Amenable to Control by Copper Fungicides

	Disease
Plant	Common name	Pathogen
Almond	Shot hole	Clasterosporium carpophilum
	Rust	Puccinia pruni-spinosae
	Blossom wilt	Sclerotinia laxa and Sclerotinia fructigena
	Leaf curl	Taphrina deformans
Aloe	Anthracnose	Colletotrichum agaves
Antirrhinum	Rust	Puccinia antirrhini
Apple	Pink disease	Corticium salmonicolor
	Fireblight	Erwinia amylovora
	Bitter rot	Glomerella cingulata
	Canker	Nectria galligena
	Blotch	Phyllosticta solitaria
	Black rot	Physalospora obtusa
	Blossom wilt	Sclerotinia laxa
	Scab	Venturia inaequalis
Apricot	Shot hole	Clasterosporium carpophilum
	Rust	Puccinia pruni-spinosae
	Blossom wilt	Sclerotinia laxa and Sclerotinia fructigena
Areca Nut	Thread blight	Corticium koleroga
Arrowroot	Banded leaf blight	Corticium solani
Artichoke (Globe)		Ramularia cynarae
Asparagus	Rust	Puccinia asparagi
Avocado	Fruit spot	Cercospora purpurea
	Anthracnose (Black spot)	Glomerella cingulata
	Bacterial rot	Pseudomonas syringae
	Scab	Sphaceloma perseae
Azalea	Flower spot	Ovulinia azaleae
Banana	Black rot (Die back)	Botryodiplodia theobromae
	Helminthosporiosis	Helminthosporium sp.
	Sigatoka disease (Leaf spot)	Mycosphaerella musicola
Barley	Snow damage	Typhula itoana
	Covered smut	Ustilago hordei
Bean (Broad)	Leaf spot	Asochyta pisi
	Chocolate spot	Botrytis cinerea
	Rust	Uromyces fabae
Bean (French and Runner)	Anthracnose	Colletotrichum lindemuthianum
	Powdery mildew	Erysiphe polygoni
	Halo blight	Pseudomonas medicaginis var phaseolicola
	Rust	Uromyces appendiculatus
	Common blight	Xanthomonas phaseoli
Begonia	Mildew	Oidium begoniae
Betel	Leaf spot	Bacterium betle
	Leaf spot	Glomeralla cingulata
	Foot rot	Phytophthora colocasiae
	Leaf rot	Phytophthora parasitica
Blackberry	Cane spot	Elsinoe veneta
Blueberry	Powdery mildew	Microsphaera alni var. vaccinii
	Leaf rust	Pucciniastrum myrtilli
	Fruit rot	Sclerotinia vaccinii-corymbosi
Brassicas	Damping off	Oipidium brassicae
	Downy mildew	Peronospora parasitica
	Black leg (Canker)	Phoma lingam
	Black rot	Xanthomonas campestris
Cacao	Brown pod rot (Die back)	Botryodiplodia theobromae
	Witches' broom	Marasmius perniciosus
	Black pod rot	Phytophthora palmivora
Calendula	Leaf spot	Cercospora calendulae
Carnation	Ring spot	Didymellina dianthi
	Leaf spot	Septoria dianthi
	Rust	Uromyces dianthi
Carrot	Blight	Alternaria dauci
	Bacterial soft rot	Bacterium carotovorum
	Leaf spot	Cercospora carotae
Cassava	Leaf spot	Cercospora henningsii
Castor oil	Leaf spot	Phyllosticta bosensis
Cattleya	Black rot	Phythium ultimum
Celery	Blight	Cercospora apii
	Leaf spot	Septoria apii and Septoria apii graveolentis
Cherry	Shot hole	Clasterosporium carpophilum
	Leaf spot	Coccomyces hiemalis
	Bitter rot	Glomerella cingulata
	Leaf scorch	Gnomonia erythrostoma
	Bacterial canker	Pseudomonas mors-prunorum
	Brown rot (Blossom wilt)	Sclerotinia laxa and Sclerotinia fructigena
	Scab	Venturia cerasi
Chestnut	Blight	Endothia parasitica
	Ink disease	Phytophthora cambivora
Chilli	Blight (Leaf spot)	Cercospora capsici
	Blight (Collar rot)	Phytophthora capsici
	Bacterial spot	Xanthomonas vesicatoria
Chrysanthemum	Mildew	Oidium chrysanthemi
	Rust	Puccinia chrysanthemi
	Leaf spot	Septoria chrysanthemella
Cinchona	Damping off	Pythium vexans
Cineraria		Alternaria senecionis
Citronella	Collar rot
Citrus	Sooty mould	Aithaloderma citri
	Thread blight	Corticium koleroga
	Melanose	Diaporthe citri
	Mal secco	Deuterophoma tracheiphila
	Scab	Elsinoe fawcetti
	Anthracnose (Wither tip)	Gloeosporium limetticola
	Sooty blotch	Leptothyrium pomi
	Black spot	Phoma citricarpa
	Brown rot	Phytophthora spp.
	Black pit	Pseudomonas syringae
	Septoria spot	Septoria depressa
	Canker	Xanthomonas citri
Coffee	Brown eyespot	Cercospora coffeicola
	Thread blight (Black rot)	Corticium koleroga
	Anthracnose (Die back)	Glomerella cingulata
	Rust	Hemileia vastatrix
	Berry disease	Colletotrichum coffeanum
Conifers	Blight	Cercospora thujina
	Coryneum blight	Coryneum berckmanii
	Canker	Coryneum cardinale
	Fusiform rust	Cronartium fusiforme
	Blister rust	Cronartium ribicola
	Leaf cast (of Kauri Pine)	Hendersonula agathi
	Needle cast (of Scots Pine)	Lophodermium pinastri
	Phomopsis blight	Phomopsis juniperovora
	Needle cast (of Douglas Fir)	Rhabdocline pseudotsugae
	Root rot	Rhizoctonia cROCCORRXum
Cotton	Alternarii disease	Alternaria gossypii and Alternaria
	macrospora
	Sore shin	Corticium solani
Cowpea	Scab	Cladosporium vignae
Cucurbits	Leaf blight	Alternaria cucumerina
	Wet rot	Choanephora cucurbitarum
	Anthracnose	Colletotrichum lagenarium
	Wilt	Erwinia tracheiphila
	Powdery mildew	Erysiphe cichoracearum
	Black rot	Mycosphaerella citrullina
	Stem end rot	Physalospora rhodina
	Downy mildew	Pseudoperonospora cubensis
Currant (Ribes)	Leaf spot	Mycosphaerella grossulariae and Mycosphaerella ribis
	Leaf spot	Pseudopeziza ribis
Cytisus	Die back	Ceratophorum setosum
Daffodil	White mould	Ramularia vallisumbrosae
	Fire	Sclerotinia polyblastis
Dahlia	Leaf spot	Phyllosticta dahliicola and Entyloma dahliae
Dalo	Leaf spot	Phytophthora colocasiae
Delphinium	Mildew	Erysiphe polygoni
Derris	Leaf spot	Colletotrichum derridis
Dogwood (Cornus)	Spot anthracnose	Elsinoe corni
Egg Plant	Leaf spot	Ascochyta melongenae
	Damping off	Corticium solani
Fig	Leaf fall and Fruit rot	Cercospora bolleana
	Rust	Cerotelium fici
	Thread blight	Corticium koleroga
	Canker	Phomopsis cinerescens
	Blight	Phizoctonia microsclerotia
Filbert	Bud blight	Xanthomonas corylina
Fruit trees	Crown gall	Bacterium tumefaciens
Gambier	White root rot	Fomes lignosus
Gardenia	Canker	Phomopsis gardenia
Gerbera	Leaf spot	Cercospora sp.
Ginseng	Blight	Alternaria panax
Gladiolus	Corm rot	Botrytis gladiolorum
Gooseberry	Die back	Botrytis cinerea
	Leaf spot	Mycosphaerella grossulariae
	Cluster cup rust	Puccinia pringshemiana
	American mildew	Sphaerotheca mors-uvae
Grasses	Snow mould	Calonectria graminicola
	Red thread	Corticium fusiforme
	Brown patch of lawns	Rhizoctonia and Holminthosporium spp.
	Stripe smut	Ustilago striiformis
Ground nut	Leaf spot	Cercospora arachidicola and Cercospora personate
	Stem rot (Southern blight)	Sclerotium rolfsii
Guava	Leaf spot	Cephaleuros mycoidea
	Thread blight	Corticium koleroga
	Rust	Puccinia psidii
Hellebore		Coniothyrium hellebori
Hollyhock	Rust	Puccinia malvacearum
Hop	Downy mildew	Pseudoperonospora humuli
	Powdery mildew	Sphaerotheca humuli
Hydrangea	Mildew	Oidium hortensiae
Leek	Mildew	Peronospora destructor
	White tip	Phytophthora porri
Lettuce	Downy mildew	Bremia lactucae
	Ring spot	Marssonina panattoniana
Lily	Blight	Botrytis elliptica
Maize	Downy mildew	Sclerospora philippinensis
Mango	Red rust	Cephaleuros virescens
	Anthracnose	Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
	Scab	Elsinoe mangiferae
	Bacterial black spot	Erwinia mangiferae
	Anthracnose	Gloeosporium mangiferae
	Powdery mildew	Oidium mangiferae
Medlar	Scab	Venturia eriobotryae
Millet (Italian)	Smut	Ustilago crameri
Mushroom	White mould	Mycogone perniciosa
	Bacterial blotch(Brown blotch)	Pseudomonas tolaasi
Nectarine	Shot hole	Clasterosporium carpophilum
	Rust	Puccinia pruni-spinosae
	Blossom wilt	Sclerotinia laxa and Sclerotinia fructigena
	Leaf curl	Taphrina deformans
Oats	Loose smut	Ustilago avanae
Olive	Leaf spot	Cycloconium oleaginum
Onion	Downy mildew	Peronospora destructor
Orchids	Fusarium	Macrophoma and Diplodia spp.
Paeony	Blight	Botrytis peaoniae
	Bud death	Sphaeropsis paeonia
Palm ( Palmyra)	Leaf spot	Pestalotia palmarum
Passion fruit	Brown spot	Alternaria passiflorae
	Grease spot	Pseudomonas passiflorae
Pawpaw	Leaf spot	Ascochyta caricae
	Anthracnose (Fruit rot)	Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
	Powdery mildew	Oidium caricae
	Hard rot	Phytophthora parasitica
Peach	Shot hole	Clasterosporium carpophilum
	Rust	Puccinia pruni-spinosae
	Blossom wilt	Sclerotinia laxa and Sclerotinia fructigena
	Leaf curl	Taphrina deformans
Pear	Scab ( America)	Cladosporium effusum
	Thread blight	Corticium koleroga
	Firebiiglit	Erwinia amylovora
	Bitter rot	Glomerella cingulata
	Leaf spot (Leaf speck)	Mycosphaerella sentina
	Scab	Venturia pirina
Pecan	Scab	Cladosporium effusum
	Thread blight	Corticium koleroga
	Vein spot	Gnomonia nerviseda
	Liver spot	Gnomonia caryae var. pecanae
Pepper(Red)	See Chilli)
Persimmon	Canker	Phomopsis diospyri
Pineapple	Heart or stern rot	Phytophthora parasitica
Piper betle	(See Betel)
Plantain	Black tip	Helminthosporium torulosum
Plum	Shot hole	Clasterosporium carpophilum
	Black rot	Dibotryon morbosum
	Bacterial canker	Pseudomonas mors-prunorum
	Wilt	Pseudomonas prunicola
	Rust	Puccinia pruni-spinosae
	Brown rot	Sclerotinia fructigena
	Blossom wilt	Sclerotinia laxa
	Watery rot (Pocket plums)	Taphrina pruni
	Bacterial spot	Xanthomonas pruni
Poplar		Septogloeum populiperdun
Poppy	Downy mildew	Peronospora arborescens
Potato	Early blight	Alternaria solani
	Grey mould	Botrytis cinerea
	Blight (Late blight)	Phytophthora infestans
	Dry rot	Sclerotium rolfsii
Quince	Brown rot	Sclerotinia fructigena
	Shot hole	Clasterosporium carpophilum
Raspberry	Spur blight	Didymella applanata
	Cane spot (Anthracnose)	Elsinoe veneta
	Cane wilt	Leptosphaeria coniothyrium
Rhododendron	Leaf scorch (Bud blast)	Pycnostysanus azaleae
Rhubarb	Downy mildew	Peronospora jaapiana
Rice	Brown spot	Ophiobolus miyabeanus
	(Helmintliosporiosis)
	Blast	Piricularia oryzae
Rose	Black spot	Diplocarpon rosae
	Downy mildew	Peronospora sparsa
	Rust	Phragmidium mucronatum
	Leaf spot (Anthracnose)	Sphaceloma rosarum
	Mildew	Sphaerotheca pannosa
Rubber	American leaf disease	Dothidella ulei
	White root rot	Fomes lignosus
	Leaf disease	Helminthosporium heveae
	Stem disease	Pestalotia palmarum
	Abnormal leaf fall	Phytophthora palmivora
Rye grass	Blind seed	Phialea temulenta
Safflower	Rust	Puccinia carthami
Seedlings	Damping off	Pythium debaryanum, Pythium and Rhizoctonia spp, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum,etc
Sorghum	Covered smut	Sphacelotheca sorghi
Spinach	Leaf spot	Heterosporium variabile
	Downy mildew	Peronospora effusa
Spindle tree	Mildew	Oidium euonymi-japonicae
Stock	Leaf spot	Alternaria raphani
Strawberry	Leaf spot	Mycosphaerella fragariae
Sugar beet	Leaf spot	Cercospora beticola
	Downy mildew	Peronospora schactii
Sunflower	Rust	Puccinia helianthi
	Wilt	Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
Sweet potato	Wilt	Fusarium spp.
Taro	Leaf spot	Phytophthora colocasiae
Tea	Black rot (Die back)	Botryodiplodia theobromae
	Red rust	Cephaleuros niycoidea
	Blister blight	Exobasidium vexans
	Grey blight	Pestalotia theae
Tobacco	Brown spot (Red rust)	Alternaria longipes
	Leaf spot	Ascochyta nicotianae
	Frog eye	Cercospora nicotianae
	Blue mould (Downy mildew)	Peronospora tabacina
	Wildfire	Pseudomonas tabacum
Tomato	Early blight	Alternaria solani
	Leaf mould	Cladosporium fulvum
	Anthracnose	Colletotrichum phomoides
	Fruit rot	Didymella lycopersici
	Mildew	Leveilluia taurica
	Fruit rot	Phytophthora capsici
	Foot rot	Phytophthora cryptogea
	Blight (Late blight)	Phytophthora infestans
	Leaf spot	Septoria lycopersici
	Grey leaf spot	Stemphylium solani
	Bacterial spot	Xanthomonas vesicatoria
Tuberose	Blight	Botrytis elliptica
Tung	Thread blight	Corticium koleroga
Veronica		Septoria exotici
Vine (Grape)	"Coitre"	Coniothyrium diplodiella
	Anthracnose	Elsinoe ampelina
	Black rot	Guignardia bidwellii
	Leaf spot	Isariopsis fuckelli
	Bitter rot	Melanconium fuligineum
	Angular leaf spot	Mycosphaerella angulata
	Downy mildew	Plasmopara viticola
	Totbrenner	Pseudopeziza tracheiphila
	Powdery mildew	Uncinula necator
Vine (Sultana)	Sooty dew	Exosporium sultanae
Viola	Leaf spot	Centrospora acerina
Violet	Scab	Sphaceloma violae
Walnut	Ring spot	Ascochyta juglandis
	Anthracnose (Blotch)	Gnomonia leptostyla
	Downy leaf spot	Microstroma juglandis
	Blight	Xanthomonas juglandis
Wheat	Root rot	Gibberella zeae
	Rust	Puccinia spp
	Snow damage	Pythium sp.
	Bunt	Tilletia caries and Tilletia faetida
Willow	Black canker	Physalospora miyabeana
	Scab	Venturia chlorospora
Zinnia	Wilt	Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

Note:

Technical Specifications:

 

In Table A some of the many uses of copper sulphate are listed. Copper Sulphate-CuSO4 x 5H2O

(CuSO4X5H2O) ................ >98,20%

Humidity ............................ max. 2%

Water insoluble ................. 0.01%

(Acidity) Free H2SO4......... > 0.10%

Ph:.................................... >3,5

Cu .................................... >24.94%

Fe: ................................... >0.05%

Ni: ................................... 19.6mg/kg

Pb: ................................... 25.9mk/kg

As: .................................. >0.012%

Cd: ................................. <5.00mg/kg

Hg: ................................. <0.10 mg/kg

F: ................................... <5.00mg/kg

 

 

Apperance ............................. Crystal

Dimension(crystal size) ............... 80-800µ

Colour: ............................... Blue

Density: ............................. ~1.188 g/sm³

 

Copper Sulphate       INDUSTRIAL GRADE :

Molecular Formula:CuSO4 5H2O

CuSO4.5H2O≥.................. 96

Cu≥ .................................. 24.50

Pb≤ .................................. 20ppm

As≤ .................................. 20ppm

Free Acid ≤ ...................... 0.3

Insoluble matter≤ ............. 0.2

Uses of Copper Compounds: General Uses

 

 

 

 

 

To trace the history of copper compounds it would be necessary to go back much further than the fourth millennium BC. Records found in the tombs of the early Egyptians suggest that, at least, this ancient civilisation employed copper sulphate as a mordant in their dyeing process. Today, more than 5,000 years later, copper sulphate is still employed by the world's dyeing industry in the after treatment of certain dyes to improve their fastness to light and washing.

Another equally early recorded use for copper compounds was for the making of ointments and other medical preparations. Later, the Greek civilisation of the pre-Christian era of Hypocrates (circa 400 BC) saw the prescribing of copper sulphate for pulmonary diseases and by the 18th century AD it had come into wide clinical use in the western world, being employed for the treatment of mental disorders and afflictions of the lungs.

It is noteworthy that copper sulphate has lost none of its effectiveness over the centuries, neither have any harmful side effects been reported. Copper sulphate is still, however, highly prized by some inhabitants of Africa and Asia for healing sores and skin diseases. In the West it is widely used in baby foods and in mineral and vitamin tonics and pills.

Copper has a wide spectrum of effectiveness against the many biological agents of timber and fabric decay. It renders them unpalatable to insects and protects them from fungus attack. Copper sulphate has been in use since 1838 for preserving timber and is today the base for many proprietary wood preservatives.

The discovery more than 80 years ago that many algae are highly susceptible to copper, led to the use of copper salts by water engineers to prevent the development of algae in potable water reservoirs. They are also employed to control green slime and similar algal scums in farm ponds, rice fields, irrigation and drainage canals, rivers, lakes and swimming pools.

Another well known use for copper compounds is as a molluscicide for the control of slugs and snails. Less than one part of copper per million parts of water can control disease-transmitting aquatic snails, which are responsible for schistosomiasis or bilharzia in humans in tropical countries and fascioliasis or liver fluke of animals in both tropical and temperate climates.

 

 

Uses of Copper Compounds: Agricultural Uses

Copper compounds have their most extensive employment in agriculture where the first recorded use was in 1761, when it was discovered that seed grains soaked in a weak solution of copper sulphate inhibited seed-borne fungi. By 1807 the steeping of cereal seeds in a copper sulphate solution for a limited time and then drying them with hydrated lime became the standard farming practice for controlling stinking smut or bunt of wheat, which by then was endemic wherever wheat was grown. Flour milled from bunted wheat had to be fed to animals or sold cheaply to ginger bread makers who had found a way of masking its bad taste and color with ginger and treacle. Within a few decades, so general and effective had become the practice of treating seed grains with copper sulphate that the appearance of more than a few bunted ears in a field of wheat was looked upon as a sign of neglect on the part of the farmer. So well have copper compounds controlled bunt that today this seed-borne disease is no longer of any economic importance.

The greatest breakthrough for copper salts undoubtedly came in the 1880's when the French scientist Millardet, while looking for a cure for downy mildew disease of vines in the Bordeaux district of France, chanced to notice that those vines, bordering the highways and which had been daubed with a paste of copper sulphate and lime in water in order to make the grapes unattractive to passers-by, appeared freer of downy mildew. This chance observation led to experiments with mixtures of copper sulphate, lime and water and in 1885 Millardet announced to the world that he had found a cure for the dreaded mildew. This mixture became known as Bordeaux mixture and saw the commencement of protective crop spraying.

Within a year or two of the discovery of Bordeaux mixture, Burgundy mixture, which also takes its name from the district of France in which it was first used, appeared on the scene. Burgundy mixture is prepared from copper sulphate and sodium carbonate (soda crystals) and is analogous to Bordeaux mixture.

Trials with Bordeaux and Burgundy mixtures against various fungus diseases of plants soon established that many plant diseases could be prevented with small amounts of copper applied at the right time and in the correct manner. From then onwards copper fungicides have been indispensable and many thousands of tons are used annually all over the world to prevent plant diseases.

As a generalization, soils would be considered copper deficient if they contain less than two parts per million available copper in the context of plant health. However, where the soil contains less than five parts per million available copper, symptoms of copper deficiency may be expected in animals. The increasing use of chemical fertilizers which contain little or no copper are denuding soils of readily available copper and creating a deficiency of the element in plants and through them in animals. Copper compounds are now being added to the ever increasing copper deficient soils either direct or in combination with commercial fertilizers. This is particularly the case where the fertilizers are rich in nitrogen and phosphorus. Animals grazing on copper deficient pastures or obtaining an inadequate amount of copper through their normal diet will benefit from mineral supplements containing copper.

Copper sulphate, because of its fungicidal and bactericidal properties, has been employed as a disinfectant on farms against storage rots and for the control and prevention of certain animal diseases, such as foot rot of sheep and cattle.

Uses of Copper Compounds: Copper Sulphate's Role in Agriculture

 

Copper sulphate has many agricultural uses (see below ) but the following are the more important ones:

• Preparation of Bordeaux and Burgundy mixtures on the farm
• Control of fungus diseases
• Correction of copper deficiency in soils
• Correction of copper deficiency in animals
• Stimulation of growth for fattening pigs and broiler chickens
• A molluscicide for the destruction of slugs and snails, particularly the snail host of the liver fluke

Preparation of Bordeaux and Burgundy Mixtures on the Farm

Because of their importance to farmers, instructions concerning the dissolving of copper sulphate and the preparation of both Bordeaux and Burgundy mixtures have been included in the text.

Dissolving Copper Sulphate

Iron or galvanised vessels must not be used for the preparation of copper sulphate solutions. Plastic vessels, now freely available, are light and very convenient. To make a strong solution, hang a jute sack of copper sulphate so that the bottom of it dips a few inches only in the water. The copper sulphate will dissolve overnight. Copper sulphate dissolves in cold water to the extent of about 3 kg per 10 litres. If more than this is placed in the sack described above, then a saturated solution will be obtained and it may be used without serious error on the basis that it contains 3 kg copper sulphate per 10 litres.

Preparation of Bordeaux Mixture

Bordeaux mixture is prepared in various strengths from copper sulphate, hydrated lime (calcium hydroxide) and water. The conventional method of describing its composition is to give the weight of copper sulphate, the weight of hydrated lime and the volume of water in that order. The percentage of the weight of copper sulphate to the weight of water employed determines the concentration of the Bordeaux mixture. Thus a 1% Bordeaux mixture, which is the normal, would have the formula 1 :1:100the first 1 representing 1 kg copper sulphate, the second representing 1 kg hydrated lime, and the 100 representing 100 litres (100 kg) water. As copper sulphate contains 25% copper metal, the copper content of a 1% Bordeaux mixture would be 0-25 % copper. The quantity of lime used can be reduced considerably. Actually 1 kg copper sulphate requires only 0.225 kg of chemically pure hydrated lime to precipitate all the copper. Good proprietary brands of hydrated lime are now freely available but, as even these deteriorate on storage, it is safest not to exceed a ratio of 2:1. i.e. a 1:0.5:100 mixture.

In preparing Bordeaux mixture, the copper sulphate is dissolved in half the required amount of water in a wooden or plastic vessel. The hydrated lime is mixed with the balance of the water in another vessel. The two "solutions" are then poured together through a strainer into a third vessel or spray tank.

Preparation of a 1% Burgundy Mixture

Dissolve separately 1 kg copper sulphate in 50 litres water and 125 kg washing soda (or 0.475 kg soda ash) in 50 litres water and slowly add the soda solution to the copper sulphate solution with stirring. Control of fungus diseases

Bordeaux and Burgundy mixtures have been found effective in controlling a whole host of fungus diseases of plants. Normally a 0.5 % to 1 % Bordeaux or Burgundy mixture applied at 2 to 3 week intervals suffices to control most copper-susceptible fungi.

Generally, once the fungus spores have alighted on the host plant and penetrated the tissues it is difficult to control them. The principle of control must in most cases depend on protection, ie preventing the fungus spores from entering the host tissues. Copper fungicides are noted for their tenacity and for this reason, are much to be preferred in areas of high rainfall.

The simplest method of control is to apply a protective coating of Bordeaux or Burgundy mixture (or other copper fungicides) to the susceptible parts of the plant, so that spores alighting on them come in contact with the protective film of copper and are killed instantly. It is thus important to remember that the first spraying must ideally be made just before the disease is expected and continued at intervals throughout the susceptible period. For this reason it is important to take advantage of the early warning schemes which are in operation to ensure greater accuracy of the timing of the first spraying.

It must also be remembered that fungi are plants and that control measures that will kill them may not always leave the host plant unaffected. The use of too concentrated a fungicide mixture must, therefore, be guarded against, particularly for the early sprays.

Copper fungicides have been reported effective against numerous plant diseases. A list, by no means exhaustive, of some 300 diseases that have been found amenable to control by copper fungicides, appears in Table B.

Correction of Copper Deficiency in Soils

Where copper deficiency has been confirmed by soil analysis or field diagnosis, whether in plants or animals, it can be corrected very simply either by applying 50 kg copper sulphate per hectare in the form of a fertiliser before sowing or by spraying the foliage of the young cereal plants, when they are about 150 mm high, with 750 grams copper sulphate (dissolved in from 400 to 2,000 litres water) per hectare. The soil application has generally given the better results and has the advantage that it may have a residual effect for more than ten years. The foliar application has to be given annually to each crop. An alternative is to add a copper containing slag (normally about 1% to 2 % copper) at a rate of a tonne to the hectare.

Correction of Copper Deficiency in Animals

A method of correcting copper deficiency in livestock is to treat the soil on which animals graze. For example, in Australia and New Zealand swayback in lambs is being prevented by top dressing copper deficient pastures with 5 to 10 kg copper sulphate per hectare some time before lambing begins.

Other methods include drenching periodically with a copper sulphate solution; incorporating copper sulphate in salt and other animal licks; or by what is probably the most general method, incorporating copper sulphate along with other minerals and vitamins in the form of carefully blended supplements in the feeding stuffs.

Stimulation of Growth for Fattening Pigs and Broiler Chickens

The inclusion of up to as much as 0.1% copper sulphate in the diet of bacon and pork pigs and broiler chickens stimulates appetite and produces increased growth rate with a marked improvement in feed conversion.

A molluscicide for the destruction of slugs and snails, particularly the snail host of the liver fluke. All likely habitats of the liver fluke snail should be treated with copper sulphate at the rate of 25 kg to the hectare at least twice a year in June and August (northern hemisphere) or December and February (southern hemisphere).

	Copper Sulphate-CuSO4 x 5H2O
(CuSO4X5H2O)			>98,20%
	Humidity		max. 2%
	Water insoluble		0.01%
	(Acidity) Free H2SO4		> 0.10%
	Ph:		>3,5
	Cu		>24.94%
	Fe:		>0.05%
	Ni:		19.6mg/kg
	Pb:		25.9mk/kg
	As:		>0.012%
	Cd:		<5.00mg/kg
	Hg:		<0.10 mg/kg
	F:		<5.00mg/kg
Apperance			Crystal/Liquid
	Dimension(crystal size)			80-800µ
	Colour:			Blue
	Density:			~1.188 g/sm³

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Fungicides are pesticides that kill or prevent the growth of fungi and their spores. They can be used to control fungi that damage plants,including rusts, mildews and blights. They might also be used to control mold and mildew in other settings.
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