How do you grow crystals?

Question

i wanted to know because i really think that they look amazing

Answer 1

if u want to make a sugar crystal, then you can dissolve a lot of sugar in boiling water nd stick a string in the mixture and let it stay there overnight.l....... you can look up how to do iy

Answer 2

crystal meth?

Answer 3

they have these kits at like toy stores that you can grow colored crystals in jars

but for real ones its up to nature

Answer 4

you cant grow them only mother nature can..

soryy

Answer 5

You can buy a kit at walmart and do chemical crystals (i think the kit is from the smithsonian)  To grow a simple (and tastey) crystal, dissolve sugar in boiling water.  Then suspend a string, end just in the solution.  Wait awhile, and tada - a crystal

Answer 6

The crystallization process consists of two major events, nucleation and crystal growth. Nucleation is the step where the solute molecules dispersed in the solvent start to gather into clusters, on the nanometer scale (elevating solute concentration in a small region), that becomes stable under the current operating conditions. These stable clusters constitute the nuclei. However when the clusters are not stable, they redissolve. Therefore, the clusters need to reach a critical size in order to become stable nuclei. Such critical size is dictated by the operating conditions (temperature, supersaturation, etc.). It is at the stage of nucleation that the atoms arrange in a defined and periodic manner that defines the crystal structure — note that "crystal structure" is a special term that refers to the relative arrangement of the atoms, not the macroscopic properties of the crystal (size and shape), although those are a result of the internal crystal structure.

The crystal growth is the subsequent growth of the nuclei that succeed in achieving the critical cluster size. Nucleation and growth continue to occur simultaneously while the supersaturation exists. Supersaturation is the driving force of the crystallization, hence the rate of nucleation and growth is driven by the existing supersaturation in the solution. Depending upon the conditions, either nucleation or growth may be predominant over the other, and as a result, crystals with different sizes and shapes are obtained (control of crystal size and shape constitutes one of the main challenges in industrial manufacturing, such as for pharmaceuticals). Once the supersaturation is exhausted, the solid-liquid system reaches equilibrium and the crystallization is complete, unless the operating conditions are modified from equilibrium so as to supersaturate the solution again.

Many compounds have the ability to crystallize with different crystal structures, a phenomenon called polymorphism. Each polymorph is in fact a different thermodynamic solid state and crystal polymorphs of the same compound exhibit different physical properties, such as dissolution rate, shape (angles between facets and facet growth rates), melting point, etc. For this reason, polymorphism is of major importance in industrial manufacture of crystalline products.

Basically how we do it in the lab is

take the liquid that we know forms crystals and cool it reall fast and pour the liquid over a vacuum pump and suck all the water out

and to the other answerer:  It takes 100 years, that is the most ignorant answer I'v ever seen

what happens when you freeze water?   does that take 100 years?

Answer 7

in the ground

Answer 8

it takes a long time for crystals to form sometimes even over 100 years!!!