Thursday, April 2, 2009

Tayla 13




These are the crystals I grew, they are very much in a cluster compared to other peoples but you can see the crystals but they are very small.


Tayla 12




Last year i when to a friends house, and we went rock climbing in the hills near her house and that's when i found this rock.
One side it is has mica flakes which is a metalic colour and the res is made up of different size crystals. you can see the crystals because they have flat sides and defined edges. the crystals look like they are in the shape of a hexagon if we could see right around.
I hope the three photos give you enough information .
Tayla Nietschke

Tania 20

Hello Everyone

Step 1. Add Alum into a jar of boiling water until it does not dissolve any more.
Step 2. Once the Alum does not dissolve anymore you then place some coloured dye in.
Step 3. Tie some cotton to the paper clip and the tie it to a pencil.
Step 4. Leave it on a bench until crystals have grown.
This is a crystal that I made last night out of Alum. Look at how many crystals are in the jar over a 12 hour period.
Here is a crystal that has grown on my paper clip.

Here is my crystal that is made out of a sugar solution.



Tayla 11




Here are some crystals that give you good Feng Shui which is like good luck. It is done by arranging objects around the home in a certain order to attract positive energy. It is an traditional Chinese art.


Tayla




Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Tom 18 Crystals



Hi everyone

Here are my crystals after being away for a week.
I am glad to be at the end of this unit


Cheers
Tommo

George25

It was great seeing everyones crystals on IDL mine are so big that I need to make more of the solution!!!

Tayla 10







This is a glucose atom which is a form a sugar, so is fuctose and sucrose. they are much more complex than salt atoms.

Tayla9


Hi Everyone,

Earlier in the blog George had pictures he found on the National Geographic website, I had a look at what the picture were of and they are called then “the Sistine Chapel of crystals.” The real Sistine Chapel is a very famous church in Rome, Italy. The cave was found by miners excavating a tunnel in 2000 but is an amazing find. It has some of the largest crystals ever found. The mystery was how the crystals grew so big! Geologists say it was because the crystals ‘thrived because they were submerged in mineral-rich water with a very narrow, stable temperature range—around 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius)’. Crystals need special environments to grow just like the crystals we made. To grow crystals need to not be disturbed just like on the instructions for our crystals we had to leave the container without moving it for a while.
Tayla

Tania 19

It was good to see all of your crystals on IDL.

sam 17


Hi everyone


I hope you are like the off line unit. I was on the net and i found thes crystals ear ring that are green i think they look cool.

Bradley23. Video Day 8

Hi Everyone
Here is my summery of my crystals for day 8.
Cheers Bradley