How To Make Beautiful Crystals From Wood & Aluminum Foil

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  @newusernamelol6579 · 2 years ago

  I love how the goal is to make it easy for a non-chemist to make and the first step is to extract pure battery acid

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• DA

  @Dan-vq4pz · 2 years ago

  After the "...Make Some Beautiful Crystals" line I expected the 4chan ammonia, bleach and a straw infographic

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• VO

  @VoIcanoman · 2 years ago

  Back in the early '90s, I grew alum crystals for a science fair project in 7th grade. I also grew some other crystals (copper sulphate for sure, as well as sucrose and sodium chloride...but there were a couple other more exotic types...pretty sure one was chromium-based, while the other was a manganese salt). I obviously sourced the alum from the drug store, not wood, aluminum foil, and battery acid (lol, while awesome, that is a time-consuming and highly inefficient way to get alum when you can just...buy it). But aside from that, the process was the same. Super-saturate a solution, sprinkle some alum in, get the seed crystals, tie them to some fine fishing line, and grow them bigger. And over a few weeks, I did grow a couple gorgeous alum crystals. They were smallish - like maybe 6 or 7 mm in diameter, but they were perfectly clear and displayed a striking octahedral structure, just like little diamonds. It was a fun project, and I put a lot of time into it, but the judge still only awarded me a silver medal. OH, I was so mad...but I got over it.

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• WR

  @wreck_grimes6754 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLSLpFN5ypY&amp;t=491">8:11</a> &quot;pamiętaj chemiku młody kwas zawsze wlewaj do wody&quot;

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• EV

  @everwhaleoff · 2 years ago

  Hey, when&apos;s the video of growing meth crystals for people who just want to enjoy making crystals and don&apos;t spend most of their time hoarding random chemicals in their garage?

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• YO

  @YoungJence · 2 years ago

  his accent is so pure yet i understand him perfectly. such a soothing voice

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• EV

  @eve_squared · 2 years ago

  I love the giant filter paper, not only because of the absurdity but it genuinely probably filtered about as quickly as if you were to use a vaccum filter since the huge surface area and high material volume you can process in one batch.

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• TI

  @timothynelson6918 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m an idiot, but science fascinates me. This was fun to watch even though most of it was way beyond my skill set. Great video!

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• TK

  @tkaczgames564 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLSLpFN5ypY&amp;t=65">1:05</a> Sanepid lubi to

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• SA

  @SammyGDude · 2 years ago

  I think you&apos;re doing it great. one tip to do it even better is to place a smaller pad of wood under the blocks you chop so you can dig a hole in your patio bricks and plant a tree to chop down later.

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• SO

  @sohamsuke · 2 years ago

  Waiting for drops to fall when filtering things, can relate.

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• SC

  @ScottyKushin · 11 months ago

  Your polish accent is great dude I love it!

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