Growing salt crystals – 2nd attempt

Following my previous attempt at this. I am now repeating the experiment with pure Sodium Chloride. I am also using a 250ml conical flask, which is much larger.

This time I used hot water from the kettle, taking a precaution of warming this up with warm tap water first, just in case the sudden temperature changed caused the flask to shatter. I then added Sodium Chloride powder.

I am now leaving this to hopefully grow some nice crystals which I would expect to be more of a cuboid shape. This prediction is based on:-

• Pictures of similar results
• The molecular shape of Sodium Chloride.

I am doing this for:

• Support the STEM Group events
• Hopefully can use this in a school to help children grow their own crystals.
• Personal interest
• Research purposes

Links

• Better Equipped
• Paignton Library STEM Group
  • Science forum discussion
• Science Forums
• Discourse Discussion
• Tuxiversity
• Qoto Mastodon
• Social coding
• Science Daily

TAGS

#YearOfTheFediverse,#FediverseRising,#Science,#Chemistry,#Growing,#SodiumChloride,#Salt,#Crystals.

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