Sunday, February 18, 2007

Growing rocks

Washing soda crystals can be made to grow very quickly, and we decided to test this out. Turns out, it's true! Dante is holding a pipe cleaner with far too many "seed" crystals on it, which is is about to dip into our supersaturated solution. Evidently, we should have used "a" seed crystal, rather than a gazillion. But, as you can see below, we still got a nice looking set of crystals in less than half a hour.

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