What is Cuprous Oxide Cu2O Used For?

Russia's insistence on paying for Russian gas in rubles has rattled European countries: Greece held an emergency meeting of suppliers, the Dutch government would urge consumers to use less gas, and the French energy regulator told consumers not to panic. Russian gas meets one-third of Europe's annual energy needs.

Russia said they could expand their demand for ruble payments for other commodities, including oil, grain, fertilizer, coal, and metals, which raised the risk of recession in Europe and the US. 

Moscow is expected to unveil its ruble payment plan in early April, but it said it would not immediately ask buyers to pay for gas in rubles.  

Western countries have said paying in rubles would be a breach of contract, and renegotiation could take months or longer. This uncertainty has pushed commodity market prices higher.

The supply and prices of other commodities like the Cu2O powder could also be affected.

What is Cuprous Oxide Cu2O?
Cuprous oxide, the chemical formula is Cu2O, is a univalent copper oxide, bright red powder solid, almost insoluble in water, in acidic solution disproportionation into bivalent copper and copper elemental, gradually oxidized in wet air into black copper oxide. 
 
Cuprous oxide is commonly used as pigment, fungicide, and antifouling agent in Marine coatings. Rectifier diodes based on this material were used in industry as early as 1924, long before silicon became the standard. Copper oxide (I) is also responsible for the positive pink color of Benedict's test. 
 
What is Cupric and Cuprous Oxide? 
Copper is a red-orange metal with high conductivity to heat and electricity. It shares this ability with silver and gold because each of these elements has a "free-agent" electron that can negotiate chemical bonds with any available atom around it. All the other electrons are tightly bound to their group, but this one is susceptible to transfer. 
 
When copper is exposed to a water molecule (two hydrogens and one oxygen), this free electron is transferred to a neighboring oxygen atom, binding it into a single molecule. If only one copper atom is bound to the oxygen molecule, it is called copper oxide. If two copper atoms bond with one oxygen atom, it is cuprous oxide. Copper oxide is considered "fully oxidized" while cuprous oxide remains active.
The key to cuprous oxide is its active state, which makes it very effective as a fungicide.  It's still producing reactive oxygen, highly reactive molecules. These are unstable molecules that can cause damage to cellular structures.
 
What is Cuprous Oxide Used For? 
Antifouling paint for ships and ship bottoms; It is an effective control of corrosion. 
Paint for glass and porcelain.
Used as p-type semiconductor material for the manufacture of photocells for light meters and for the manufacture of rectifiers. 
Used as a fungicide and seed dressing agent.
Cuprous oxide is commonly used as a catalyst in the production of other chemicals. Used for manufacturing zinc chloride, ferrous chloride, etc. It is also used as a UV absorber in surface treatment products.
Cuprous oxide is one of the most common oxides in batteries, accounting for 9% to 15% of all batteries. It is also used in metal production, construction and construction, and in the production of plastics and other organic compounds. It is an ingredient in some paints and is used as an oxidant in many metal plating processes.
Used in industrial and construction industries as ultra-high purity reagents, catalysts and effective preservatives. It is particularly suitable for manufacturing and process control, as well as the construction industry. It is also used in water treatment, particularly for purifying water to remove dissolved particles and for polymerization of specific polymers. 
Used as a catalyst in metallurgy, the process is important for steel production. Catalysts act as reducing agents in the oxidation of iron.
Used as pigments and flame retardants, and as a flux in metal smelting.
 
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The Cu2O powder industry has experienced demand expectations driven by the rise and the off-season tired stock driven by the seasonal decline in two rounds of the market. Affected by the COVID-19 epidemic and other factors, inventories of manufacturers continue to accumulate, putting pressure on market sentiment. In addition to off-season factors, the weak trend of Cu2O powder also reflects the market's concern about the epidemic and some other related enterprises' financial situation. 

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