Copper Plating on Iron Piece...!

Copper Plating on Iron Piece

If an iron piece is left at a place
directly affected by the change in
weather conditions, you won't have
any difficulty in predicting the changes wrought on it. What do you say? It will get rusted? That's right. There's no doubt about the fact that iron starts catching rust as soon as it comes in contact with air and water.

Articles required for this Science activity are Some iron article like a nail or a screw, sulphate of copper.

But there is more to this phenomenon of rusting of iron. If an iron piece is copper-plated, this process of rusting can be slowed down to a considerable extent. And the greatest thing is that this process of copper plating is very easy. All you
have to do is to prepare a concentrated copper sulphate solution and leave your iron piece in it for some time. The copper plating will be done automatically. In fact, even if you leave it just for a few seconds,
your iron will get copper-plated. But if you want a really thick coating you'll have to wait for a little longer.

Now you know how to coat iron with copper. We'll also tell you the process of silver plating on copper. The photographers use a solution called hypo. If you hang a copper piece in this solution for about two-three hours, and rub it with dry cloth after taking it out, you'll get a
silver-plated copper piece. Yes, it's true that this plating is very temporary, but isn't it a good fun?