Home Chemistry - Crazy Crystals

Aim: To learn about a saturated solution and how to make crystals

Definition of solution:

A liquid mixture, when something is dissolved into a liquid (eg: sugar in water)

Definition of saturated:

Having or holding as much as can be absorbed of something (when no more sugar or borax can be dissolved into the water

Borax Crystals

Materials

1) 3 tablespoons of Borax

2) ½ cup of Warm liquid/ Water

3) Container

4) Spoon

5) Paper

6) 3 x 10 centimeters of pipe cleaners

7) Peg

Process

Step 1: Make a star out of 3 pipe cleaners by crossing them over.

Step 2:Add a peg by clipping it on to the star.

Step 3:Place 3 tablespoons of borax in a container.

Step 4:Add ½ a cup of warm water into the container by pouring it in.

Step 5:Stir the solution with a spoon for 5 minutes.

Step 6:Place the star that you have made previously and make it so the peg is sitting up the top of the cup so the pipe cleaner star is in the solution

Step 7: Write your name of your group and then write on your container what is in the container.  

Sugar Crystals

Materials

1. 6 tablespoon Sugar
2. Spoon
3. Container
4. 7 centimeters of a Pipe Cleaner
5. Peg
6. Hot liquid/ water

Process

Step 1: First get a 7 centimeter long pipe cleaner and attach it to a peg .

Step 2:add 8 tablespoons of sugar to the container.

Step 3:then add ½ a cup of hot liquid to the sugar.

Step 4:stir the solution till the sugar is dissolved.

Step 5:then get the pipe cleaner and the peg and place it at the top of the cup.

Step 6: Place your container on the paper you wrote on before.

Salt Crystals

Materials

1. 3 teaspoons of salt
2. ½ a cup of hot liquid/ water
3. Spoon
4. Container
5. Pipe cleaner
6. Peg

Process

Step 1:place a peg on a 10 centimeter pipe cleaner.

Step 2 Add 3 tablespoons of salt to a container.

Step 3: Then add ½ a cup of hot liquid to the salt.

Step 4: Mix the solution for a few minutes.

Step 5:Then add the peg and pipe cleaner into the container.

Step 6: Place your work on the piece of paper.

Findings

Describe your crystals in the table below.

Crystal Type	Shape (Describe the shape)	Size (of individual crystals)	Hardness (Crumbly to Rock Hard)
Borax	Cube	No size	Hard
Sugar	Didn't work	No size	liquid
Salt	Didn't form	No form	liquid

What crystals worked out best and why?: The borax one did because the others did not work.
we didn't mix or put much of ingredients in to the sugar and salt recipe.
we did saturate the borax one more than we did in the salt and sugar.
 1: Cubic
 2: Orthorhombic.
 3: Monoclinic.
 4: Triclinic.
 5: Trigonal.
 6: Hexagonal.
 7: Tetragonal.

7 different crystal shapes

The 7 types of crystals

Type	Number of sides	2 examples	Image
Triclinic Definition:	12
Monoclinic Definition:	10
Orthombic Definition:	6
Trigonal Definition:	9
Hexagonal Definition:	8
Cubic Definition:	6
Tetragonal Definition:	7

Explain how the following crystals are formed?

Type
Salt
Sugar
Snowflakes