Crazy Shiny Crystals!

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Kia Ora! Today In Science, were making Crystals! We have 3 different choices of Crystals that we could make. These different crystals were Borax, Sugar, and Salt. My group and I are doing different crystals. I choose to do Salt, Shreya did Sugar one and Shalizeh and Risha did the Borax one. 

Aim: To learn about a saturated solution and how to make crystals

Definition of the solution: 

A liquid mixture, when something is dissolved into a liquid (eg: sugar in water) 

Definition of saturated: 

Having or holding as much as can be absorbed of something (when no more sugar or borax can be dissolved into the water)

In groups of three, you will make three different types of crystals and compare the results.

Salt Crystals

Ratio: 4 Tablespoons salt to 1/2 cup water

Materials

1) A cup

2) Pop stickle stick

3) Warm Water

4) Salt

5) String 

6) Spoon for scooping salt

Process

Step 1: Grab a cup or glass.

Step 2: Fill it up with warm water.

Step 3: Get your spoon, and scoop 4 spoons of salt and put it inside the cup.

Step 4: Mix it together until there's no more salt underneath.

Step 5: Now, Get your Popstickle stick and your string, tie your string in the middle of your pop sickle stick.

Step 6: Dip your string to the water and while the popsicle stick is hanging at the top of the cup.

7) Leave it in several days (A week or so) and see what happened.

Findings

Describe your crystals in the table below.

Crystal Type	Shape (Describe the shape)	Size (of individual crystals)	Hardness (Crumbly to Rock Hard)
Borax	No crystals were formed	No crystals were formed	No crystals were formed
Sugar	No crystals were formed	No crystals were formed	No crystals were formed
Salt	Cube	Small	Rock Hard

What crystals worked out best and why?:

The crystal that worked out in our group was the Salt crystal one, It's the only one that worked out. When I checked it out, there's only a few are attached to the string but, in the top of the popsicle stick, there are heaps, I don't know why this is happening but strange... 

A photo of my small yet unique crystals:

Conclusion:

I think they'll all worked out ONLY if we were given more days not just 2 days to make these awesome cool crystals to form firmly into a beautiful shiny crystal. 

CRYSTAL TYPES

AIM: TO LOOK AT THE 7 DIFFERENT TYPES OF CRYSTALS

Salt Crystals

Sugar Crystals

Borax Crystals

7 different crystal shapes

The 7 types of crystals

Type	Number of sides	2 examples	Image
Triclinic Definition:	7	A tall house Chimney
Monoclinic Definition:	10	- A rugby ball -Diamond
Orthombic Definition:	5	-Rectangle -Bed
Trigonal Definition:	10	-A coffin -An oblong-ish vase
Hexagonal Definition:	8	-Cylinder Shape -A cylinder-ish chair
Cubic Definition:	6	-Square shape -A box
Tetragonal Definition:	12	- A tetragonal shaped rock -A mirrored upside down house.

Explain how the following crystals are formed?

Type
Salt	It starts with the sea water, then they put it in a pond. Next, the sun evaporates it and there! you have the salt.
Sugar	It starts from Sugar Cane, they cut it, Take the juice out and heat it up and it makes Syrup Crystallation also known as "Sugar".
Snowflakes	It starts in the sky, It's all about the cold temperature, the colder, the beautiful the snowflakes formed.

Hope you enjoyed this post and learned something new!