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Aidan
 
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Default Green deposit on copper pipe at fittings


Aidan wrote:

I don't know what the green compound is, I'm sure a chemist will be
along shortly.


Maybe a copper dihydrate? Starts off as a copper chloride CuCl2, a
yellow-brown solid which slowly absorbs moisture to form a blue-green
dihydrate (according to Wikipedia).