Crystal Growing.

I have received this crystal growing kit as a gift:

 

Reading the booklet that comes with it, I discovered that, apparently, crystal growing can be both a hobby and an industrial process. There are clubs and competitions for crystal growing enthusiasts through out the world.

 

So this is my first attempt to grow crystals.

 

Aluminium Potassium Sulphate:

 

Monoammonium Phosphate:

 

I found that it is easier, quicker, and more effective to simply pour boiling water carefully out of the kettle onto the salts to dissolve them in order to prepare solution for growing instead of the doing long heating process described in the instructions to the kit.

Comments

[jonathan]

This looks interesting. Just how big can you grow these crystals and what do you plan to do with them once you've grown them?

[Marina Sokolova]

I don’t know how big they will grow, I have never done it before. I guess I will display them on a mantelpiece after I finish with them.