Crystal Growing
You can grow beautiful red crystals from potassium ferricyanide, a blood red salt. It is commonly used as an ingredient in cyanotyping – and despite its name, quite safe to handle. Since it’s hard to find household materials that can form red crystals, I was very excited when I got my hands on …
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Potassium ferrioxalate produces striking green crystals that are both beautiful and easy to grow. Potassium ferrioxalate is a chemical that can be made from relatively common materials. You can prepare it by dissolving rust in oxalic acid, which is often used in cleaning, and then …
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I discovered an easy way to grow blue-green iron sulfate crystals on a piece of wire and turn it into a ring. For the past few months, I’ve done lots of experiments with iron sulfate. Most of the time, I grew individual crystals, but recently I became interested in crystallizing objects too. So …
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Mohr's salt is popular for crystal growing because it gives nice green crystals, which are also stable in air. The doorbell rang. I jumped with excitement. My order of ammonium sulfate and iron (II) sulfate powder had arrived. Having successfully grown iron sulfate crystals a few …
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Iron (II) sulfate can be tricky to work with, but it forms unique blue-green crystals. I love growing crystals. Actual crystals. It’s been 2 years since I fell in love with this hobby in chemistry class, and I’m still making discoveries every day. Even so, it starts getting dull when you work …
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