Can you grow crystals  with borax?
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The process relies on the fact that Borax, like many things, is less soluble at lower temperatures in water.\n\nIf you make a saturated solution of Sodium TetraBorate (AKA "borax") using [near] boiling water and then cool the solution down to room temperature, some of the borax will precipitate out.  If you place a "seed' crystal suspended in the solution, it will act as the place where the solid Borax will form as it cools, producing some rather nice crystals.\n\nA very similar process can be used to make Salt and/or sugar crystals as well.\n\nBy the way, Borax crystals are NOT edible.  Boron (which is contained in Borax) in definatly not something you want to get in your body, it can kill you.
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Non-living things can increase in size, but only in response to external factors. Non-living things cannot "grow" from within as living things do. Stalagmites and stalactites "grow" by the deposition of minerals from without. Crystals "grow" by adding layers of the same mineral from without. A riverbed can enlarge as a result of erosion of its banks. A mountain range or volcanic peak can "grow" as a result of pressures pushing it up from beneath. A living thing grows by creating more of itself from within, by duplication of its own matter - its own cells.
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borax does not have any reported toxicity but quite frankly I would avoid doing it.
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Salt crystals can, but Bultfonteinite is usually white. So that may be what you are looking for. I found a link for you with a pic so you can see if it is what you are refering to.\nThe website also has other crystals just in case that is not it, you should be able to find it there.
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When I was a kid, back in the 1950s, you could buy a liquid called water glass, for preserving eggs.   It was a saturated solution of sodium silicate.   It was colourless and as viscous as treacle.   You'd pour it into a jam jar and carefully place crystals of coloured salts into it, so they'd sink to the bottom.I remember using copper sulphate (blue), cobalt chloride (purple), ferrous sulphate (green), and ammonium dichromate (orange).   After about two days, you'd see coloured threads growing upwards from the crystals.   That's a silica garden.   It's an attractive ornament.
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Hmm. This is exactly what I've been doing for the past few weeks. I'm assuming these are aqueous solutions of the three, right?\n\nWell, both magnesium and strontium form precipitates with hydroxides, so you could add some sodium hydroxide and centrifuge it down. To the liquid remaining, add some kind of sulfate, like potassium sulfate, because barium precipitates with sulfates, forming BaSO4.\n\nTo the solid containing strontium and magnesium, add ammonia to make the solution basic, then add sodium carbonate. The magnesium should complex with the carbonate and fall out, forming Mg4(CO3)3(OH)2. Then, whatever's left is strontium.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_crystal
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http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.130.htm
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Not  necessary. When the thickness is high ordinary ray of light is absorbed by the crystal and only the extra-ordinary light comes out.\n\nIf  cut we can  identify the position of crystal to produce the polaraised light.
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check out hydroponics, soilless growth, with sodium halide lamps. Amazing growth rate but expensive for electricity. you can find the right kit on ebay. happy growing, man:)
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is this your school homework,  are there suppossed to be other questions before these because my computer shows them starting from No. 4.\nnway,\n4.  filter the solution while still hot because as the soltion cools crystallization occurs, and you will nloose your product on the fiolter paper.\n5. crystallization can be induced by reduction in temperature i.e put in an ice bath or you can use a technique called seeding where you put a few crystals of the expected substance in the solution, the other method is to increase the concentration of the solution by evaporating it, to saturation point, ensure you do not evaporate it dry.\n6.i do not know what you started with so i can not tell.\n7.slow cooling will definately give bigger crystalls.\n8.sodium chloride reacts with silver nitrate to form a white precipitate, actually silver nitrate solution is used to analyse NaCl in industrial setting.\n\nope you will find these information sufficient.
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unlikely since the nitrogen requires far more electrons than boron can give it for bonding.  \n\nYou get t-type boron halides tho.
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Doing this with an unamplified human voice is very hard, no matter what you use.  Basically, you'll need the thinnest, mosy fragile design you can find, and a very powerful diaphram.  Did you see the episode of Mythbusters where they did it?  They found a professional singer who could do it, but only after trying a couple dozen different glasses.  As far as what kind of crystal, I'm afraid I don't know that.  But ultimately, this will be much easier with an amplification system.
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1/8 cup borax laundry detergent\n1 1/2 cup hot water\n1 cup white elmers school glue\n1 cup hot water \nMix borax with hot water. Stir until dissolved. Mix glue and water. put 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons of glue mixture in a medium Ziploc bag and add 2 drops food coloring. Add 1/4 cup borax mixture. Squish the bag to mix the ingredients well. Soon you'll have a slime. Put in small containers overnight. Children have a lot of fun playing with it and it's not messy
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“Making your own Crystals”\n\nA crystal is a special kind of rock. Different crystals have different beautiful shapes and colors. \n\nWhat you'll need\n\n Your magnifying glass \n Table salt \n Epsom salt \n Honey jar \n Measuring cups and spoons \n Paper cut into circles \n Scissors \n Pencil \n String \n 1 3/4 cups of sugar \n 2 or 3 paper clips \n A glass jar or drinking glass \n Your science journal\n\nWhat to do\n\n \n\n1. Use your magnifying glass to look for crystals. Inspect: \n1. The table salt and Epsom salt; \n\nThe honey jar (particularly if it has been open for awhile) and \n\nThe walls of the freezer (if it's not the frost-free kind). \n\n1. Draw pictures of what you see in your science journal. \n1. Do all of the crystals look the same? \n1. If not, how are they different? \n1. Try dissolving salt crystals and forming new ones: \n1. Dissolve 1 teaspoon of salt in 1 cup of water\n1. Grown-up alert! \n\nHeat the mixture over a low flame to evaporate the water. \n\nWhat's left? \n\nWhat shape are these crystals? \n\n1. Snowflakes are made of ice crystals and are beautiful, but they are hard to see clearly. You can make paper snowflakes. \n1. Take a circle of paper (use thin paper) and fold it in half. Then fan fold it. \nMake cuts along all the edges. Unfold them. \n1. Grow rock candy crystals from dissolved sugar. \n\nGrown-up alert! \n\nPour a cup of boiling water into a dish and add 1 3/4 cups of sugar. Stir until the sugar is completely dissolved. Prepare a jar or glass as shown. \n\n\n\nWash the paper clips and use clean string. When the sugar water is cool, pour it into the jar and put it where no one will move it. Hang the paperclips in the water and put the pencil on top of the jar. \n\nSome crystals may form in a few hours. Some may grow to be half an inch on each side. To save them, take them out of the water and keep them dry. But they may disappear--they are good to eat. \n\nWhen certain liquids and gases cool and lose water, crystals are formed. Crystals are made up of molecules that fit neatly together in an orderly package. All crystals of the same material have the same shape, regardless of the size.
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http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/crystals.htm
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Use water, preferably from a source that you know is as pure as possible and is natural, like a stream.  If you wish to do some sort of ritual to bless the water, do that.  Take up a soft cloth, dip the crystal in the water and wipe it clean.  If, after a good scrubbing, there is still dirt, well, that's a natural thing, so just live with it.