Home Chemistry - Crazy Crystals

Aim: To learn about a saturated solution and how to make crystals 

Definition of solution: 

A liquid mixture, when something is dissolved into a liquid (eg: sugar in water) 

Definition of saturated: 

Having or holding as much as can be absorbed of something (when no more sugar or borax can be dissolved into the water)

Borax Crystals

Materials

Ratio; 3 Tablespoons Borax per 1/2 cup water

1)Borax 

2)String 

3)Cup

4) pipe cleaners

5) table spoon
6) Popsicle stick
7) Warm water

Process

Step 1: Add in 1/2 a cup of water in you cup 
Step 2: Then add in 3 table spoons of borax

Step 3: Mix until deserved 
Tip: You can add more borax if it can take more borax
Step 4: Tie your string to your Popsicle stick

Step 5: Make a star shape with you pipe cleaner and tie it to your string

Step 6: Put your star into the borax and water solution

Sugar Crystals

Materials

Ratio: 1 cup sugar to 1/2 cup water

1)Sugar

2)String

3)Table spoon

4)Cup

5)Popsicle stick

Process

Step 1: Get a cup of water 

Step 2: Add in 4 or more if needed table spoons of water

Step 3: Mix till deserved

Step 4: Tie your string to you Popsicle stick

Step 5: The put your Popsicle stick with the string in your salutation  

Step 6: After some days you will see crystals

Findings

Describe your crystals in the table below.

Crystal Type	Shape (Describe the shape)	Size (of individual crystals)	Hardness (Crumbly to Rock Hard)
Borax	Star	It didn't work but the size was large	It was still soft
Sugar	No Crystals Formed
Salt	The Salt crystal formed on the Popsicle stick.  Cube.	Tiny	Rocky

What crystals worked out best and why?:

Conclusion:

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Explain how the following crystals are formed?

Type
Salt	Salt is made by putting sea water into a pond and then the sun evaporates the water. Then you are left with salt.  Meaning of evaporates: It when a liquid turns into gas and floats away in the air.
Sugar	First the sugar cane is cut up and rolled into a thin line. Then they remove the fibre and melted it underneath a hot pot to make it into a syrup. Then they add in sugar and that starts the process. Then after some hours it makes sugar.
Snowflakes	I forms by the cold and hot breeze and it makes a snowflake.

       

CRYSTAL TYPES

AIM: TO LOOK AT THE 7 DIFFERENT TYPES OF CRYSTALS

Salt Crystals

Sugar Crystals

Borax Crystals

7 different crystal shapes

The 7 types of crystals

Type	Number of sides	2 examples	Image
Triclinic	7	Grave Stone Roof of a house
Monoclinic	10	Diamond, Coffin
Orthorhombic	6	A Long Cube, Rectangle
Trigonal	10	Coffin, Crystal
Hexagonal	8	Octagon, Hexagon
Cubic	6	Dice, Box
Tetragonal	12	Diamond, Crystal