Students synthesize the copper pigment malachite, then use the pigment to prepare egg tempera paint. Students explore "stoichiometry (excess reactants and yields), solubility, precipitation, and properties of emulsions" in this Journal of Chemical Education article by Sally D. Solomon, Susan A. Rutkowsky, Megan L. Mahon, and Erica M. Halpern.
The first half of this experiment uses…
