Crystal Growing Experiments

As I was reading about what metals our Swedish coins contain, I started wondering if it would be possible to extract them. Going into t...

I know this isn't exactly about crystals, but science is fun anyway, right? ;) In an earlier experiment, read here , I made a copper...

I came across a few sources online about making Copper (II) acetate, so I wanted to give it a try. The process involves letting copper react...

This past Sunday was my birthday and my beautiful girlfriend gave me a box of goodies. Glass beakers, crystallization bowls, filter papers...

I'm going to try to make purple crystals and for that I'm going to use Chromium Potassium Sulphate and Potassium Aluminium Sulphate....

Two days and nothing was really happening to the solution, except all the small crystals at the bottom. I decided to try to isolate four of...

Another interest I have is photography, so it's only logical that I try to combine that with crystal growing. Here are a few photos ...