Introduction Have you ever wondered how crystals are made? Crystals come in all different shapes and sizes. The purest and cleanest crystals, however, are usually also the ones that grow to be the ...

As the borax settles out, it bonds with other borax. It does this on “nucleation sites” (cracks, bumps or a pipe cleaner) and begins to form crystals. The crystals come together on the bottom and ...

When you put the borax in boiling water it dissolved. The particles settle on the bottom of the jar and the pipe cleaner. When the water cools the borax goes back to its natural state. Why is each ...