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 1 year ago
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 1 year ago
5
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Cakes 7 months ago
copper sulfate makes blue ones. see in the description where he says he used some with the borax.
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deepblue 1 year ago
Sooooooooooooooo COOL (Y)
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b-in26 1 year ago
did that borax come like that if not do i just add dye to it
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Cakes 7 months ago
yes u can add any coloring to it.
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mendex 11 months ago
Nice
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mr20100 10 months ago
wtf i tried but nothing, the crystal grew a bit then stopped
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Cakes 7 months ago
here is a list of things that can go wrong:
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/growingcrystals/a/aa012804.htm
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Cynergy 9 months ago
so cool
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gamertj 8 months ago
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 last month
add hi-liter fluid to the water? i dunno, i just watched a video on that
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