r/crystalgrowing

Hi I'm 10 years old I wanted to make a salt crystal I had this lil expensive pinkish salt I took it put hot water drained it added more pink salt some ink for color I reheated this again too still not a single cool crystal like your guys

It's growth speed is slow though

Had a big beaker of nickel II sulfate I left at home for a while and when I came back this beauty appeared

Looks like axe,wooden stick and cross for me

Hey everyone 👋

I recently started a project around crystal growing tutorials based on my own experiments. Right now, I have one paid tutorial that shows how to grow red Cesium Manganese Alum crystals — something I couldn’t find documented anywhere else, so I decided to write it myself. Also there are a lot of free tutorials.

If you’re into chemistry, crystals, or hands-on experiments, you might find it interesting:

Website: https://cryshtaleve.com/catalogue
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cryshtaleve
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@cryshtaleve

If you have any questions or suggestions (I have a bunch of unused Cesium Bromide left), I would be happy to hear your ideas.

It doesn't get much better than this. Beautiful crystal faces and decent clarity for a crystal of this size.

This crystal was grown in a sealed glass jar of supersaturated sugar syrup over a period of ~6 months.

Last few days it started growing faster than earlier, also I made CoC2O4 but it's unsoluble powder and even though it's also beautiful imo I think that would be offtopic for this reddit

Organic matter soaked in silver acetate solution. Image 1 & 2 show the UV irradiated crystal complex formations. Image 3 & 4 shows the leaf with dark spots; this is ionic silver that's reduced back into its metallic form and integrated within the cellular matrix.

Ignore the pink center, at first I had an idea to make it pink, but my pink pigment wasnt really soluble in water so it painted only the center at the start of growing . Took me a really Long time even though its small.

Forgotten batch of alum in an old beaker. The video doesn't quite do it justice it looks beautiful in the sunlight

Hey everyone, sorry for the late update. I made a new reddit account without a stupid name for me to post all my art to but apparently reddit thinks I'm a bot. It's been a whole thing where I got banned then unbanned then shadowbanned then not, and everything I've tried to do to seem human just makes them think I'm a bot. Hopefully next time I post it'll be on my new account u/LawlessLaboratories, because I'm going to try and have a crack at being a proper legit artist and I have a couple of cool things in the works so keep an eye out.

Anyway, for anybody who didn't see the first post basically I've stripped the flesh from a crab leaving the chitin and calcium carbonate, embedded that in a matrix then used various salts to replace the calcium with copper. This project is basically just the first full scale test for this process and I've already learned a LOT from it. The main minerals here are now malachite, azurite, atacamite, and gypsum. There is also some phosphates and silicates of unknown variety. You can't see it much in the photos but it has a decent sparkly shimmer to it, mostly from the gypsum I'm guessing. Different colours and textures show up in different light, and the sparkle shows up better on video so I'll post that this week too. I was going to do a second layer of mineralization but it turned out really cool already so I didn't want to take it too far and wreck it. This species is a blue swimmer crab (Portunus pelagicus). I plan to do another much larger and higher quality version later this year with a spanner crab (Ranina ranina).

I'll answer everybody's questions like last time but I'll probably do it over a week because last time kind of wiped me out. But I'm excited to see your reactions and I hope you enjoy it.

This took 2 weeks or so because it was raining dogs and cats at my place but today i go check and there are so many tiny crystals in the container, here are 2 best ones

80 % of the way through dissolving a huge pile of copper in acetic acid. Decanted off the solution and left the wet copper shavings open to the air a few days.

The camera does them no justice whatsoever. They are a lovely shade of peacock-blue-green due to some remaining copper acetate. Like a pointy coral reef.

I learned you could grow synthetic azurite, so I learned as much as I could and wanted to experiment with it myself. I tested a few different methods and recipes that seemed promising and it seems to work well so far. I think the azurite is looking awesome already! It's chemically the same as azurite, but lacks the millions of years of compression and layers haha I just fast forward that process somewhat.

So I'm two weeks into my month long experiment and I have these 2 test pieces cooking. I just refueled the process 2 weeks in so it can last the whole 4 weeks without the reaction weakening. So here is my Basic Copper Carbonate, Azurite. Just thought it was really interesting both chemically and geologically to see a fast forward creation and wanted to show you all.

These pictures are through the clear plastic layer of the container lid and a light shining in. So I apologize if they aren't as good of photos as they should be, but I didn't want to open the lid totally up and slow down the reaction.

Also anyone in the comments, if I am incorrect of any of my information please feel free to correct me. I'm still learning this all and would hate to spread false information if I happened to do so.

Also to add, not growing this to sell or anything, I just legitimately wanted to try it out, because of how interesting it is to me, see how it turned out.