Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Crystals!

This week we did crystals! Specifically, we talked about crystal structures, then made a supersaturated sugar solution and dipped a string in it to grow rock candy.

Next week, we'll examine salt crystals and different crystallizations of sugar.

In the meantime, here's an example of a particularly weird result of crystallization.




(We will not be doing this in class due to it involving 100% too much exploding glass.)

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