Crystals - Experiment 2 - Cool Crystals: How does the effect of cooling impact crystal growth?
Experiment 2
Cool Crystals: How does the effect of cooling impact crystal growth?
Purpose/Hypothesis
Temperature is one of the key environmental factors that affect crystal growth. This experiment examines the outcome of the same crystal-growing solution cooling at three different temperatures. You will place one jar in a cold environment while the crystals grow, the other jar will cool under room temperature conditions, and you will enclose the third jar and store it in a warm area so that it cools the slowest of the three. If the cooling is faster, the particles do not have time to form a large-scale orderly arrangement and a mass of little crystals will form instead. The size of each crystal will demonstrate how temperature impacts the growth of a crystal.
To begin this experiment, make an educated guess about the outcome of the experiment based on your...
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