In crystals, the particles repeat ... If it was a little tricky to tell the difference between salt and alum in the dissolving test, give the construction paper test a try. Place a cotton swab in each ...

It appears by the experiments above referred to, that an increase of heat is required to generate steam from salt water, the boiling point of a solution being above that of pure water in ...

This will evaporate the water much more slowly and will result in larger crystals. Warm the salt solution to evaporate some of the water. You get larger crystals if you evaporate the water slowly.

Two attempts of growing crystals in sugar solutions ... isn’t always necessary (in our experiment, we dug our crystals out with a fork). We used Epsom salt, but you can use other solids ...

Using the high school chemistry experiment with getting precipitate ... “If I then want to grow a salt crystal from that ...