Electroplating With Copper

In Science today we electroplated steel with copper.

Equipment 

1. Power Supply 

2 Wires With Clips Copper Sulfate Solution

3. Copper 

4. Something you want to plate.

5. Beaker

Method

Put your slips onto the positive and negative terminals of your power supply. Attach the copper to the positive wire and the metal you want to plate to the negative wire.

Put the copper sulfate solution in a tall beaker and put the copper and item in the solution. Avoid the clips entering the solution.

Set your power supply to 6 volts and turn it on! Leave for several minutes.

Result

The key turned to a copper colour.

Discussion

Copper in the Blue Solution was, Cu (Blue), with an electrical current turned into Cu (Orange Metal) on the negative electrode.