copper chloride
nounDefinition of copper chloride
: a chloride of copper:
a
: a white poisonous powder CuCl made by reducing cupric chloride and used chiefly as a catalyst and as an absorbent of carbon monoxide
— called also copper(I) chloride, cuprous chloride
b
: a yellowish brown deliquescent anhydrous powder CuCl2 made by heating copper in chlorine or a green crystalline dihydrate CuCl2.2H2O made by evaporating cupric oxide in hydrochloric acid, both being used chiefly as a mordant in dyeing and printing and in some metallurgical processes
— called also copper(II) chloride, cupric chloride
c
: any of various basic chlorides (as a brown powder CuCl2.3CuO) or mixtures formed on exposure of cupric chloride to air used as pigments and fungicides
— called also copper oxychloride