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DrCubensis


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Growing crystals
#5936129 - 08/06/06 02:45 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hi! I have found an interesting link that shows you how to grow crystals , they're beautiful!
http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/canopy/2525/crystals/
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Re: Growing crystals [Re: DrCubensis]
#5936134 - 08/06/06 02:48 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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i used to do this when i was younger. there are kits you can buy. it was a very fun thing to do with my mum. watching them grow was cool.
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DrCubensis


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I'm trying to find some beautiful salt like Copper Sulfate (I have read it can be found in garden shops)
Potasium Permanganate is also beautiful 
any idea? (I live in Spain anyway)
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Re: Growing crystals [Re: DrCubensis]
#5936262 - 08/06/06 05:55 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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You can do this with your drug of choice.
MDA looks like a cubic quartz, up to as big as ice cubes (stafford's Psychedelics Encyclopedia has an example)
Crystal meth looks like huge grains of sand:

PCP readily forms huge diamondlike crystals:

Fentanyl crystals are beautiful under blacklight:

Finally, if you mix aluminium oxide with chromium(VI)oxide in the right proportions, melt them and then VERY slowly cool them, you get one of the most beautiful crystals of all which is the Ruby:

People with good practical hardware skills, aided by a bit of knowledge of chemistry, could build a Verneuil apparatus using hydrogen/oxygen welding materials, and grow their own rubies.
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Re: Growing crystals [Re: Asante]
#5936403 - 08/06/06 08:13 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Very nice. Did you know about that company that is growing diamonds? http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond_pr.html
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Re: Growing crystals [Re: cybrbeast]
#5936974 - 08/06/06 01:02 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I tried taking some pictures of a material that I made at 3M. It doesn't work with a Canon S500 Powershot. A lanthanum-neobidium-erbium-aluminum-zinc oxide is two colors.
Blue for reflected light, red for transmitted light. Not as hard as diamond, but on that scale.
The vernoiul process isn't really practical for anything more than lab scale.
The stuff that I did is full production scale, you see it everyday in the reflective paint on the roads.
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Quote:
Acidic_Sloth said: i used to do this when i was younger. there are kits you can buy. it was a very fun thing to do with my mum. watching them grow was cool.
Used to have one also.
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Re: Growing crystals [Re: DrCubensis]
#5937040 - 08/06/06 01:26 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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 Bluing is good for growing crystals.
I notice the link you gave uses alum. That's pretty intriguing, but to add a whole other element of fun to the process, instead of starting with alum you should start with aluminum cans and turn them into alum.
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