How to make growing crystals

Added 3/8/09 9 months ago | Views 21,675 Grade B+     Education / Science

Make growing crystals

Make growing crystals

Check out this science experiment: Make growing crystals. This video tutorial will show you how to grow crystals made from copper (II) sulfate. You'll need some borax, hot water, string, button, pen, and scissors. In just 48 hours, you'll have a huge blue crystal to impress everyone with.

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Monneyman3 (8) 3/26/08 1:42 AM
Really cool... but was that just Borax? or was that something else?... I'm thinking it was just specially dyed borax, but i'd still like to know before i try this.
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b-in26 10/12/08 3:00 PM
5
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Cakes 3/18/09 5:32 PM
copper sulfate makes blue ones. see in the description where he says he used some with the borax.
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deepblue 5/20/08 12:38 AM
Sooooooooooooooo COOL (Y)
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b-in26 10/12/08 2:59 PM
did that borax come like that if not do i just add dye to it
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Cakes 3/18/09 5:31 PM
yes u can add any coloring to it.
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mendex (1) 11/29/08 7:46 PM
Nice
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mr20100 1/4/09 9:48 AM
wtf i tried but nothing, the crystal grew a bit then stopped
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Cakes 3/18/09 5:30 PM
here is a list of things that can go wrong:

http://chemistry.about.com/cs/growingcrystals/a/aa012804.htm
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Cynergy (3) 1/24/09 9:07 AM
so cool
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gamertj (2) 3/5/09 7:04 PM
do u thing itd be possible to add something to make the crystal glow in the dark or would it disrupt the process of the crystal growing????
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JadedStarLily (1) 9/19/09 4:41 PM
add hi-liter fluid to the water? i dunno, i just watched a video on that
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jj0777 11/15/09 6:33 PM
glowing mountain dew?that's weird
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