n :  the sulfate of bivalent copper that is best known as the blue crystalline hydrate CuSO₄·5H₂O, is used as an algicide and fungicide, and has been used medicinally in solution as an emetic but is not now recommended for such use because of its potential toxicity - called also cupric sulfate  .
 
 
 
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