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By popular request, how to make Copper (II) Chloride.

The first and simplest method is to get hydrochloric acid of around ~20% concentration and add copper. Then bubble air through it using an aquarium pump. The oxygen in the air oxidizes the copper and reacts with the acid to produce copper chloride. Pretty much any concentration of acid can be used, but we recommend around 20% as there are considerably less fumes. A major drawback of this method is that it's VERY slow and can take days to produce useful quantities of copper chloride.

The second far faster method is to react hydrochloric acid and copper with an equal volume of hydrogen peroxide. The recommended concentration of acid is greater than 20% and the peroxide is equal or greater than 3%. In our video we used 200 mL 31% hydrochloric acid, 30g of copper and 200 mL of 6% hydrogen peroxide. This reaction only takes a few hours to finish.

For many applications like PCB etching or gold recovery from circuit boards, sulfate contamination is not a problem so the third method uses readily available copper sulfate. Just take the copper sulfate and add as much hydrochloric acid as necessary to dissolve it. This directly produces copper chloride that can be used for the previously mentioned application. It will be contaminated with sulfate ions but these have no effect.

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