Copper(I) oxide

Copper(I) oxide or cuprous oxide (Cu₂O) is an copper(II) nitrate, respectively.

Copper(I) oxide is found as the copper(II) oxide.

Formation of copper(I) oxide is the basis of the precipitate of Cu₂O.

Cuprous oxide forms on red plague.

General applications

Cuprous oxide is commonly used as a pigment, a fungicide and an antifouling agent for marine paints.

Applications as semiconductor

Copper(I) oxide was the first substance known to behave as a silicon became the standard.

Copper(I) oxide shows four well understood series of Stark effect and phonoritons have been demonstrated.

Another extraordinary feature of the ground state excitons is that all primary scattering mechanisms are known quantitatively. Cu₂O was the first substance where an entirely parameter-free model of polaritons.

See also

• copper(II) oxide

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