About growing crystals at home

You can find quite a lot of information about growing crystals at home. For example, from copper sulfate or table salt. I would like to offer a simple way to grow crystals that look like coral with a turquoise tint.
What we need: coarse salt, a pinch of copper sulfate and clean water without boiling. It is better to take filtered water, but not just from the tap.
Let's make a solution of table salt: pour water into a container and place it in a vessel with warm water (about 50°C - 60°C). Ideally, the water will not contain dissolved salts, that is, distilled, but in our case, you can use filtered tap water. Pour table salt into a jar and leave for 5-10 minutes, stirring before doing so. After some time, the jar of water will warm up and the salt will dissolve. It is important that the water temperature does not drop too much. Then add more salt and stir again. Repeat this operation until the salt stops dissolving and settles to the bottom of the jar. As a result, we will get a saturated salt solution.Pour the solution into a clean container, removing any undissolved salt from the bottom of the jar.
Pour approximately 50 ml of the resulting solution into a small container. and dissolve in this solution several crystals of copper sulfate, about half a teaspoon. Mix well.

About growing crystals at home


Pour our prepared solution with vitriol into a jar until it turns green and place it in a cool place at about 14-16 degrees.



After the solution has cooled, you need to tie a salt crystal to a string. Place the other end on a stick and lower it into the solution to a depth of 10 - 15 mm. And again put it in a cool and dark place. After 2-3 days the crystal will grow. Then it will stop growing and the crystals will seem to climb up. After 5 days you will see the result. The crystal you see has been growing for about two weeks.






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Comments (8)
  1. V.A.L.E.K.
    #1 V.A.L.E.K. Guests 15 January 2013 13:11
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    cool recipe
  2. T_n
    #2 T_n Guests April 26, 2013 10:29
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    (((Damn, you can’t take vitriol in our country(((
    What to do???
  3. VALEK
    #3 VALEK Guests November 17, 2013 07:39
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    It is sold in hardware or flower shops! Completely free!
  4. elena
    #4 elena Guests November 22, 2013 11:56
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    The crystal did not grow. at all. It's been standing for a week now.
  5. nati
    #5 nati Guests 26 February 2014 14:37
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    you can use bath salts
  6. Dzhigurda
    #6 Dzhigurda Guests 8 June 2014 16:30
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    Quote: elena
    The crystal did not grow. at all. It's been standing for a week now.

    the solution should be saturated. I accidentally spilled 5 liters, and salt has been growing in the corners for half a year already
  7. Nika
    #7 Nika Guests 2 September 2014 19:58
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    how much does vitriol cost :winked:
  8. Konstantin
    #8 Konstantin Guests 5 March 2015 21:51
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    And I paid the Vanilla crystal!
    Looks like a lot of thin needles coming from the center, but very fragile! I tried to drain the water, it all crumbled... Ross for about 3 weeks, before that everyone smeared this water with vanilla to repel mosquitoes and midges, i.e. It was more likely that the sweat and dirt from the hands were absorbed into the solution.

    When I tried to grow again from a completely clean solution, nothing grew at all... So it happened by accident, but the commission crystal was beautiful!