Cupric acetate → Cupric acetate

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Reaction Steps

70 ml of purified water was added to 8 g of anhydrous copper acetate (manufactured by Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.). Thereto was added 12.0 ml of 64 wt % hydrazine hydrate at room temperature of 25° C. while stirring so as to give a molar ratio of hydrazine to copper acetate of 5.5, thereby to carry out the reaction to find that the resulting product contained about 20% by weight of metallic copper.

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