Crazy Crystals

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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)

In groups of three you will make three different types of crystals and compare the results.

Borax Crystals

Ratio; 3 Tablespoons Borax per 1/2 cup water

Materials

1) Cup or glass 

2) Cut up pipe cleans in to three it should look like the photo 

3) Warm water  

4) Borax 

5) Popsicle stick

6) String 

7) Spoon 

Process

Step 1: Grab a cup or a glass

Step 2: Put 3 tablespoons of borax and a 1/2 cups of water in you cup

Step 3: Mix it all together 

Step 4:Tie a string to your Popsicle stick 

Step 5: Make a star out of you pipe cleaner and tie to you string 

Step 6: Then put the string and the star in to the water and watch the magic happen 

Step 7: Document what happens  

What my groups looks like

  

Sugar Crystals

Ratio: 1 cup sugar to 1/2 cup water

Materials

1) Cup or glass 

2) Spoon 

3) Warm water  

4) Sugar

5) Popsicle stick

6) String 

Process

Step 1: Grab a cup or a glass

Step 2: Put 1 cup of sugar but put a little at a time and a 1/2 cups of water in you cup

Step 3: Mix it all together 

Step 4:Tie a string to your Popsicle stick 

Step 5: Then put the string and the star in to the water and watch the magic happen 

Step 6: Document what happens  

What my groups looks like

Salt Crystals

Ratio: 4 Tablespoons salt to 1/2 cup water

Materials

1) Cup or glass 

2) Spoon 

3) Warm water  

4) Salt

5) Popsicle stick

6) String 

Process

Step 1: Grab a cup or a glass

Step 2: Put 4 tablespoon of salt but put a little at a time and a 1/2 cups of water in you cup

Step 3: Mix it all together 

Step 4:Tie a string to your Popsicle stick 

Step 5: Then put the string and the star in to the water and watch the magic happen 

Step 6: Document what happens  

What my groups looks like

Findings

Crystal Type	Shape (Describe the shape)	Size (of individual crystals)	Hardness (Crumbly to Rock Hard)
Borax	Star	large	soft and hard
Sugar	Tube like	large	Hard
Salt	Tube like	Medium	Rock hard

What crystals worked out best and why?:

Conclusion:

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CRYSTAL TYPES

AIM: TO LOOK AT THE 7 DIFFERENT TYPES OF CRYSTALS

Salt Crystals

Sugar Crystals

Borax Crystals

7 different crystal shapes

Type	Number of sides	2 examples	Image
Triclinic	7	Turquoise Rhodonite House
Monoclinic	10	house with a pointy floor and a coffin
Orthombic	5	Rectangle Rectangle tube
Trigonal	10	Diamond shape dipramid
Hexagonal	8	Tube like hexagon
Cubic	6	dice like Box
Tetragonal	12	Cube like rectangle

Explain how the following crystals are formed?

Type
Salt	First it starts with sea water and then they put it in a pond so that it can filter from there on the sun evaporate what they have left for the filter and there you have salt.
Sugar	Sugar cane Cut it up roll it get the juice heat it that makes syrup Crystallisation also know as sugar.
Snowflakes	Formed in the sky and the colder it gets the more it get bigger.

Next time I would like to Make the borax one my group of two not including me made the borax one  only one borax one worked it looked so cool and my one did not work and all the salt one works I think my sugar one did not work because I don't think I put and the salt one BYE.