Thursday, May 3, 2012

Crystal Lab!

To make a crystal you must:

1. Take a beaker and fill it with distilled water.
2. Use a hot plate to warm up the beaker and begin to saturate the water with Aluminum Potassium Sulfate.
3. Continue to allow the beaker to heat up until all of the Aluminum Potassium Sulfate is dissolved. 
4. Let the solution sit and cool completely.
5. Once this is done there should be one or more seed crystals at the bottom of the beaker. 
6. Take out the seed crystal you want to use and tie it to a stick.
7. Clean out the beaker and then repeat steps 1-4.
8. After the solution is cooled enough, take the seed crystal so that is dangles in the solution. If everything works out well, you crystal will begin to grow and grow.
9. Simply repeat the steps in order to make the crystal grow larger and larger.

THERE YOU GO!


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