How To Grow A Crystal From Table Or Sea Salt At Home + Video

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

How to grow salt crystal at home

Do you like to conduct scientific experiments and want to involve your children in this? The best way to do this is to try to grow a crystal together from common salt, which everyone probably has in the house.

Safety regulations

The experiments are based on the chemical reaction of a saturated salt solution. Both cooking and seafood is used almost every day in everyday life, it will not harm you. But still try to work with gloves and a scarf. This will prevent foreign objects - dust, hair from entering the liquid.

If you have unhealed wounds or burrs on your hands, you need to be very careful, as the solution can corrode the skin in the damaged areas and cause acute pain.

In order to grow such a crystal at home, you do not need any laboratory equipment. Everything you need is at your fingertips.

Regular salt crystals should have smooth, large edges

How to grow a crystal

So, water and salt will act as reagents in the experiment, and the equipment will be:

• two containers (glasses, half-liter cans or not too large pots);
• filter paper;

• thread or hair.

  

  To grow a crystal, you will need salt, water, threads and some kind of container

Solution preparation

1. The first step is to prepare a saturated saline solution. Pour water into the jar. It is desirable that it be distilled or at least filtered. Fill the container to about 80%, place it in a water bath.
2. At this time, add salt to the jar. If you use a cookery, an unpleasant surprise awaits you - various debris that will float to the surface. Gently remove it immediately or pass it through filter paper afterwards. Sea salt is sold, as a rule, pure. Just do not take flavored and colored with various additives, this will greatly harm the process.

3. Sprinkle salt with a margin so that the solution is saturated. The recommended proportion is 100 g of product per 150 g of water. Some of the substance must remain at the bottom, because it simply cannot dissolve. Just at this stage, pour the liquid into another jar, at the same time getting rid of small debris and undissolved salt.

   

   The salt solution must be very saturated

Seed crystal of sea or table salt

Prepare the embryos on which the crystals will grow. They should be large so that you can easily attach them to a thread.

Try to choose the largest and smoothest crystals as a seed for the future crystal

Secure the selected embryo on a thread, and wind it, in turn, on a stick or pencil, so that over time it is easy to adjust the immersion depth.

Growth

The main and longest phase of the experiment begins. In the saturated solution poured into the second jar, immerse the embryos, wrap the container with something warm so that the liquid cools more slowly.

Now cover the top of the jar with paper to avoid debris and dust and leave for 3-4 days. The water will gradually evaporate, and the salt will precipitate, growing on the nucleus and allowing crystal growth.

It is at this stage that mistakes made in the preparation process may appear. For example, you might not properly loop the thread on the crystal, and it will simply grow into the middle. To avoid this, fasten the embryo not in a knot, but in a thread loop, both ends of which are brought out. After the growth process is over, pull the ends of the loop alternately to loosen the grip, and remove the thread.

You can set any shape to the crystal during the growth period

If you want to grow a crystal quickly, then after a few days remove it from the container. Over the past time, it should already increase in size. Prepare a new saturated salt solution and dip the crystal there again. Some experts advise you to simply add the required amount of salt to the jar and mix thoroughly.

How to make a crystal at home (video)

youtube.com/watch?v=fu-999RWDfw

As you can see, growing a crystal is not that difficult. The main thing is to adhere to the technology and follow the recommendations. Despite the fact that this process is not a quick one, in the end you will get beautiful souvenirs that can be used as decoration or a gift. Tell us in the comments about your experience and the challenges you faced. Good luck!