Beginning chemists and inquisitive children with caring parents, it will be useful to practice chemical experiments by conducting accessible, safe and visual experiments. Especially since the original experiment on growing crystals can be carried out at home from quite accessible and common substances.
What to grow a crystal from:
There are many clear chemical recipes for growing crystals at home. There are even sold special kits for children with a small supply of various kinds of chemical reagents. For example a set “fantastic garden”, there is cobalt chloride, magnesium sulfate, nickel sulfate, copper sulfate (copper vitriol), and also a jar with liquid glass. Very interesting, clear, beautiful, and fast. With one of these kits you can grow fancy crystals in a cup or jar.
Growing crystals video:
Instructions for growing crystals at home:
In fact, I offer you an ordinary crystal-growing experiment from copper sulfate. The advantage of such crystal-growing experiment is its clarity, simplicity of reaction and speed of crystal growth. Surely many people would like to conduct such an experiment at home. Especially because, it is possible to do it practically from improvised means. I recommend you to buy in a construction store liquid glass, and copper sulfate (you can buy it in stores like “garden-garden”). Take and mix in the proportion one to one water and liquid glass. It is best, for example, to use a clear jar with a wide neck, you need to pour there half of the water, and then add half of the liquid glass, and mix well. After that, just sprinkle a little copper sulfate in it. Make yourself comfortable and observe what happens.
You can quickly enough observe the growth of copper sulfate crystals, and in about forty minutes you can drain the liquid and observe a bizarre garden of stones in your jar. We hope you and your children will find this simple experience useful and interesting, as well as many other things on bip-mip.com
