What is a Crystal Growing Kit?
It’s three days until the science fair, or until the science project is due, and your child hasn’t thought of anything to do. Or, he’s an amateur chemist and wants something different. What about a crystal growing kit? A crystal growing kit does exactly what it says it does: it uses the properties of various chemicals to yield what we call crystals. How does it work? A crystal growing kit provides the proper amount of chemicals and all supplies to grow crystals and diodes in various colors and shapes. These may be determined by the chemicals themselves, or by the amateur chemist adding food coloring in his favorite shade. The chemist simply mixes the chemicals according to the crystal growing kit’s directions, places them in the medium provided, and allows nature to take its course. Depending on the chemicals in the crystal growing kit, he could have nice-sized crystals in 24 hours. Evaporation of the liquid medium causes the chemicals to bond with each other according to their particu
