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About growing crystals at home, you can find a lot of information. For example, from copper sulfate or common salt. I want to offer a simple way to grow coral-like crystals with a turquoise hue.
What we need: coarse salt, a pinch of copper sulfate and clear water without boiling. It is better to take filtered water, but not just from the water supply.
Let's make a solution of salt: pour water into a container and put it in a vessel with warm water (about 50 ° С - 60 ° С). Ideally, the water will not contain dissolved salts, that is, distilled, but in our case, you can use filtered tap water. Pour the edible salt in a jar and leave for 5-10 minutes, stirring before that. After a while, the jar of water will warm up, and the salt will dissolve. It is necessary 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 can. As a result, we get a saturated salt solution. Pour the solution into a clean container by removing the undissolved salt from the bottom of the can.
Pour about 50 ml from 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 made solution with vitriol into a jar, until it turns greenish and put in a cool place about 14-16 degrees.

About growing crystals at home


After the solution has cooled, it is necessary to attach a salt crystal to the string. The other end onto the stick and drop into the solution to a depth of 10 - 15 mm. And again put in a cool and dark place. After 2-3 days, the crystal will grow. Then it will cease to grow and the crystals will somehow climb up. After 5 days, you will see the result. The crystal that you see has grown for about two weeks.

About growing crystals at home

About growing crystals at home

About growing crystals at home

About growing crystals at home


Other crystals:

About growing crystals at home

About growing crystals at home

About growing crystals at home


Submitted by: Vyacheclav Koldin plazma641g@gmail.com
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Comments (8)
  1. V.A.L.E.K.
    #1 V.A.L.E.K. Guests January 15, 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 not 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 has not grown. at all. already worth a week.
  5. nati
    #5 nati Guests February 26, 2014 2:37 p.m.
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    you can use bath salt
  6. jigurda
    #6 jigurda Guests June 8, 2014 16:30
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    Quote: elena
    The crystal has not grown. at all. already worth a week.

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

    With a second attempt to grow from a completely pure solution, nothing grew at all ... So it happened by chance, but the crystal was beautiful!

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