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Results of an acid test on an unknown mineral

Students were given an unknown mineral and they designed and conducted an investigation that looked into 5 different mineral properties including testing the reaction with acid.
#4) After mixing the iron powder into the copper sulfate, the iron bonded with the sulfuric acid and precipitated the copper which you can see here as the brownish red paste.
#1) In our copper extraction lab, we mixed sulfuric acid with malachite ore (that included copper).