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Hello guys here are the photos of my Ammonium Aluminium Alum crystal. You can see more of it on my website or in instagram :)

https://cryshtaleve.com/catalogue/ea22425e-3be3-4859-aa6a-d71c9e9d07f5

https://www.instagram.com/cryshtaleve/

This is my first attempt at growing a crystal. I used a 1.5” white pipe cleaner to seed it within a concentrated [4 tbsp/cup] Borax solution for 24 hours. I suspended it by tying thread through the letter’s loop, finding the appropriate height, and looping it around a bamboo skewer. I’ve now sprayed it with Krylon Triple-Thick Crystal Clear Glaze.

Things I would have done different: the time or concentration was too high and I ended up creating a massive mold of the bottom of the Mason jar; food coloring will not magically infuse with Borax; food coloring and alcohol will not adhere and make it deep hero purple.

And finally I would have removed the suspension thread immediately upon harvesting since snipping it allows it to be seen. Fortunately the letter D is reversible.

I've been trying to coat flowers with crystals for a while, and I really like how these turned out.

We tried to grow ferric hexakis urea chloride crystals with my colleague, but didn't get anything out of the solution so we put it into the fridge and forgot it there. Two months later I found this and a crystallized mass on the bottom of the beaker. It's not as smooth as we hoped for, but at least something crystallized. The crystals look blue in the solution, but yellow in the air.

Today I discovered a weird phenomenon. I had a slab of french salted butter that was about 80% consumed out on the counter. I keep it in its foil wrapper, and scoop some out when it is bound for toast.

I haven’t used it in more than 2 months and decided to do a welfare check to ensure it wasn’t getting moldy (occasionally moist air gets trapped in a butter storage situation and mold can grow).

What I discovered wasn’t mold, but crystal salt protruding from the margin of the margarine.
My only guess here is that on especially warm days (which we did have a few in the past month) caused the butter to partially melt and the salt concentrated near the edge. This fed an existing salt grain which acted as a seed, and the crystal grew.

Does anyone have any idea on whether there is a more correct circumstance this could have allowed for salty zeolites to grow from the butter surface? I have never seen this.

Sodium chloride, 2 months slow evaporation.

A huge thank you to u/crystalchase21 for your guide.

We noticed our humidifier grew soem crystals in it. We got so fastinated that my boyfriend wants to grow more and pick up this hobby.

Also having Standing Position

I used a small motor to rotate this crystal in a large container of Chrome Aluminum.

So the white thing is KCl, red/pink one is CoCl2, and all the violet/blue shades are the complex salt. Pretty beautiful.

The blue one had alum

How do I make bigger crystals?I know I have to slow evaporation but how?