Growing salt crystals consists of several easy steps. First, you need to prepare the things you need. These items include:
- ½ cup of table salt
- 1-1/2 cup of Epsom salts
- fishing weights
- cotton string
- paper and binder clips
- paper towels
- pencil
- spoons
- glass jars and glass bowls
- charcoal briquettes
- food coloring
Steps to Grow Salt Crystals
- Boil one cup of water. Pour the boiled water into a glass jar. Put the salt in the jar one teaspoon at a time. You may use rock salt instead of table salt. Stir very slowly.
- Continue stirring until you notice undissolved salt beginning to collect at the bottom of the container. Take the food coloring you have chosen and add a couple of drops to the mixture.
- Get your cotton string. Tie a pencil on one end of the string and a clip to the other end. You may use a fishing weight instead of a paper clip. Put the pencil over the jar and let the string hang down within the jar. Make sure that the clip is almost at the bottom of the jar.
- Place the jar in an area where it will not be moved or disturbed. Put a paper towel on top of the jar to prevent dust from entering the mixture. After one day, you may notice that cube-shaped crystals have formed on your paper clip or fishing weight.
You can also create salt crystals from Epsom salts.
- Boil 1 cup of water. Pour the water into a glass bowl. Next, put the Epsom salt in the bowl one teaspoon at a time. Stir very slowly until the salt starts collecting at the bottom of the bowl.
- Get two charcoal briquettes and put a few drops of the food coloring on them. Place the charcoal briquettes at the bottom of the bowl.
- Cover the bowl with a paper towel and set the bowl in a safe place. After five to six days, you will see prism-shaped crystals inside the bowl.
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