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Sulaiman
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have you looked carefully at the crystals ?
I recently re-crystalised salicylic acid from water just to see the hollow square crystals.
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Salicylic crystals are hollow?! That's weird. Upon closer examination they are square, but I can't tell if they're hollow. Perhaps I'll have to take a
look under the microscope.
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I could see the 'hollowness' using a magnifying glass but I could not get a decent photo' with my 'phone, hence not shown before.
this is the best photo' that I got ... growing in a beaker
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Some NaCl crystals I grew last year. I placed 2 L of supersaturated NaCl solution in a wide plastic tray and left it to evaporate over the summer.
When the volume decreased to half, I noticed the crystals grew much slower, so I decided it wasn't worth the effort and simply took them out of the
solution. The next batch gave smaller crystals, I guess the bigger the solution volume, the bigger the crystals. Oh and the NaCl I used was from water
softening tablets.
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Some of my favorite pictures. I know they're not all strictly chemistry, but I thought people here could still appreciate them:
hydrothermally grown carbon nanofoam SEM:
DC magnetron I built:
Immunoflourescently labeled ad DAPi stained mouse 3t3 cells, 1 undergoing mitosis:
Venus fly trap, trap, stained with tuluidine blue. Digestive enzyme excretion glands can be clearly seen:
Decellularized pig heart and decellularized strawberry:
 
And finally, hydrothermally grown copper crystals:
 
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Iodine crystals. And a bit of tiny ember glass shards.
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Wow, MrbunGee, those iodine crystals are really neat! I've never seen any that look quite like that. How did you go about making them?
Also, I have my own pretty crystal picture to share now. I found these in the container of waste acetone that I used to rinse off my glassware after
making Martius yellow (2,4-dinitronaphthol). I wouldn't have expected Martius yellow to grow such nice crystals, but it did!
I'd like to try growing a larger one now that I know it works.
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Quote: Originally posted by zts16  | | Wow, MrbunGee, those iodine crystals are really neat! I've never seen any that look quite like that. How did you go about making them?
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It came from 40 year old hydrogen iodide bottle, the HI had oxidized and most of the iodine crystalized out very slowly!
Here is the video of getting it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LMd8xiq-xY
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Definitely to nice to brake up that iodine!
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A so called Metalcarbonylhydride or Hieber-Base, in this case K[HCr(CO)5]. Had to prepare this at the university this week. It's quite
unstable but has a lovely color.
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Lovely video. I am going to have to watch more of those.
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Cemented copper from e-waste sol, onto a large square nail (~12" long). It nearly ate through at the liquid/atmosphere interface.
  
Manganese sulfate from battery crud. The reddish was from the first pull, second go was much lighter colored. What a mess to play with. Brought
back memories of much earlier experiments with copper.
 
Alum from a heat-sink/H2SO4. I had none laying around, but did have the makings for it. The stuff was heated untill a light
crust formed, then cooled. It had a really cool gell texture with an opalescent marbled look. Neat
Zinc sulfate crystal in petri dish.
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A crystal of sucrose, a crystal of nickel-doped ammonium magnesium sulphate dodecahydrate, and crystals of bis(ethylenediamine)copper(II) nitrate.
  
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How does one get so clear transparent crystal? Mine are always dim.
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The crystal of sucrose, sadly, was not intentionally grown, but was found in a very old bottle of children's cough syrup.
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Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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Some copper compounds.
https://imgur.com/a/nPxHC
Details here: https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=71...
[Edited on 14-1-2017 by CaCl2]
[Edited on 14-1-2017 by CaCl2]
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Love the rainbow display, cool stuff ^^^
1) Flea market score. 1$/ea
2) View of a family members front deck 
 
They were doing cedar essence oil from chips and needles.
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On the left, Martius yellow as the ammonium salt in aqueous solution, and on the right as the free acid upon addition of a few drops of conc. HCl.
 
Not sure why they're showing up sideways.
Oh yeah, and aga, I realized that if I set my phone camera to "square," the pictures are just small enough to post here, so I will likely double post
more of my pictures between my blog and here.
https://texium.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/update-on-martius-ye...
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Tin(ii) oxalate that I just made.
I find the needle-like crystal structure quite beautiful.
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Looks like snow  or coconut dust 
What intend you to do with that SnC2O4?
What will it be used for?
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Yeah, It really does look like coconut dust now you say it, not so much in real
life though.
I plan to convert it to tin(ii) oxide by heating with ammonia solution, then try isolating elemental tin via thermite .
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Efflorescence of magnesium sulfate
A c150 mm tall x 50mm dia porous pot that was in a saturated epsom salt solution, drained, and left for over a year in a plastic tub.
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Wow Sulalman, that is awesome! Beautiful and something you don't see every day for sure.
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Sulaiman, nice pic. I find some pretty cool things happen when stuff is left alone for a long time. Too bad it is usually hard to photograph
withough wrecking it. In the past I have had real neat crystals form in old solution, only to kick crud all over them when moving the beaker for a
pic.
Glad you were able to share with out messing it up
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Copper(II) formate crystals. Their supernatant is the deepest of royal blues and yet the crystals are an icy-looking aqua color.
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