Growing Salt Crystals
Reposting this due to adding a link to a Science Forum post.
As Salt (Sodium Chloride) dissolves in water, you can grow salt crystals quite easily. There are lots of instructions on the internet, on how to do this with Salt, as well as other chemicals; such as, Alum (Aluminium Sulfate), Borax (Sodium Borate) for example.
For the purpose of my attempt, I used
*a conical flask from my old Chemistry set,
* a wooden lollipop stick,
* string
* paper clip (to hold the string in the solution)
This is illustrated in the first picture, while the 2nd is a photo of the resulting crystal formation.
Update 17/10/2021
I took more photos on the 4th October to illustrate further growth of the crystals
It is probably worth mentioning that table salt contains Sodium Chloride but also a Anti caking agent called Sodium Ferrycyanide which according to that wikipedia article is a yellow solid.
I am not sure if this somehow affects the growth or shape of the resultng crystals. At some point I should try the same experiment pure NaCl
Tags
#Chemistry,#Salt,#SodiumChloride,#NaCl,#Crystals
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