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How Does Your Garden Grow? Investigating the "Magic Salt Crystal Garden"
JCE Editorial Staff
Journal of Chemical Education, 209 N. Brooks St., Madison, WI 53715
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May 2000
Vol. 77 No. 5
p. 624A
Abstract
Have you ever seen or grown a "Magic Salt Crystal Garden"? In this easy and popular activity, table salt is mixed with water, ammonia, and laundry bluing. The resulting solution is poured over a porous solid that sits in a bowl. Food color is added. As if by magic, a beautiful "garden" of flowerlike crystals appears on the solid. In this Activity you will grow crystals and try to figure out how the garden crystals are different from ordinary salt crystals. You should also be able to figure out what each component of the solution contributes to the process.
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Supplementary material includes detailed observations of other experiments tried.
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 JCE Editorial Staff, . J. Chem. Educ. 2000 77 624A.
*  Keywords
 Crystallography / Crystal Growth; Introductory / High School Chemistry; Teaching / Learning Aids
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Last Updated:		 March 31, 2000
April 15, 2005
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