crystals from multipul species
This post is related to salts and crystal developemt. ( Specifically a mixture of NaCl, NaClO3 and NaClO4).
My first post. If this this has been addressed before I appologize. The fact is that I do not know how to ask these question to the Google since I am
not formally educated in chemistry. I have facination with it for sure.
I will the questions straight away.
Can two, three or more salt molecules that have the same cation, form into a single crystal ?
I witnessed a beautiful developemt of a single crystal from a solution that came from an electrolosys experiment of NaCl.
The solution from my electrolosis experiment was boiled to reduce the water content. A solid preciptated. This solid was very fine grained, and
impossible to tell what the crystal structure was.
From this mixture, I decanted a small amount of the liquid. I boiled this liquid again and allowed it to sit overnight.
When I looked at it the following morning, one single crystal had delevoped. As far as I could tell, there were no other precipitates in the solution.
The crystal appeared to be a square tube ? ( not sure how to describe).
Since then I have toyed with this solution and have seen several different result. I am assuming the the crystal developemt depents a lot of the
original concentration of the solution. Prehaps the "single crystal" was just lucky.
Thanks for your input
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