Aqueous solutions of copper(II) are usually blue. Aqueous solutions of iron(III) are usually brownish yellow. So a mixture of the two, provided they are in roughly equal proportions, will give a colour intermediate between the two - a sort of olive colour, I suppose.
Note that the colour of aqueous copper(II) depends, to a certain extent, on the nature of the anion. For instance, a concentrated aqueous solution of copper(II) chloride is bright green, because of the presence of the CuCl4(--) ion, but this changes through bluish-green, greenish blue and then to blue as it is diluted.
2007-02-20 00:18:28
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