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Table salt usually looks like white powder, but sometimes it forms these tiny little cubes in old soy sauce bottles and play dough.
I was curious how big they could get, and I really wanted a salt lick so I decided to grow them myself XD
If you guys want to try it out, here's a guide:
https://crystalverse.com/sodium-chloride-crystals/
drunkcat
Fucking Ishgardian.
Shamalamadingdongz
Pu....put it in your mouth...
Baltzdelirium
Oh cool
Dookhammer
All salt crystals are cubes, even when it’s powder. This is due to their ionic bonds
theskepticinme
The neat part is that this is a direct visual to the geometry of actual atoms in this mineral
certainlynotaserialkiller
That is a really tiny hand
nosnowyno
I’m not sure I believe you…taking this with a grain of salt
Bigblackdick69
ExTechOp
@OP Maximum solubility of NaCl in water at 25°C is 357 mg/ml, its solubility does not increase appreciably with temperature, since at 100°C, the solubility is 384 mg/ml. I've grown fairly large sugar crystals, as also detailed on that website.
Sully0811
lick it
saltyPopcornkitty
Now do it with my tears.
Ryebread91
My soy sauce would never last long enough to start the process.
GreenMario42
Is…is that a tesseract?
PreciousRockDove
ThePenultimateUser
Neat! This reminds me of old school infra-red spectrum analysis, where sodium chloride salt crystal windows were used to hold a (very dry) liquid sample. The crystals were optically clear.
olafthrig
Salt plates! Students love breaking them. A good cheaper option is to stretch Teflon tape and put a drop of sample on the thin window of stretched tape.
WhiskyBravo
worst whisky ice cubes ever /s
T3sl4co1l
Exquisite
Neochondria
Possibly made a pure halite crystal.
Finding them in nature with such size and clusters with different colors are rare but possible. Most salt comes from compacted salt mounds literally mined out of from the ocean and such. So actual matrixes with them are so cool. So having made one yourself I'd keep that as a collection in gems.
KafkasKarma
I'll never attain anything like this. Congratulations stranger, bask in your glory
AdamTheAmateur
Looks kinda an easy process if you have a shelf and a few plastic containers. Maybe you're not interested in trying but it's within your capability if you want it enough!
KafkasKarma
:o so motivational. I might try
Zahnradfee
Thats Na-turally Cl-ear.
trigonman3
DALLASLAVOWNER
seriously underrated comment right here folks, I regret I have but one upvote to offer +1
OnePostCloserToAHappierLIfe
It's okay, I'll help.
Breyyne
Is this the 'Grain of Salt' everyone is taking things with?
Boinkss
I wanna make one and suck on it like a jawbreaker. Sodium chloride gobstopper.
Miph120
Salt tesseract
michaelfire
So did I
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ShadowFreddy51
One bit won't bite moment:
inkswitch11
I know energon when I see it Decepticon!
Carl99
Look like a Wisdom Cube to me :p.
TheUnnamedPoet
Sus Decepticon is trying to trick gullible humans into becoming energon farmers. What has this world come to?
VincitQuiSeVincit
I, for one, welcome our cybernetic overlords!
abrazenfool
mylwin
Empty energon cube.
ATastyCorpsesicle
Isn't energon pink though?
harthram
What is this? An energon cube for Headmasters?!
battery1979
Or cassette bots.
vegivamp
Dear diary, today I witnessed beauty.
fcib
I wouldn't resist to lick it. Not that I would like to do it, but that's the kind of intrusive thoughts I have.
VanessaBludgeons
Like clementine in the Walking dead Telltale series.
MarkiusFox
"Of course, deer. How's the corn?" (it's a terrible joke...deer, salt lick, corn...I'll show myself the door)
MrNohbdy
TheDaharMaster
I'd make a bowl of ramen just to toss it into
fcib
I hope is a BIG bowl, that's a lot more than quite few spoonful of salt.
TheDaharMaster
YOU DON'T KNOW MY LIFE:)
fcib
don't get salty
pritolus
Yeah. I can't stand it if things are too salty (and to my almost everything is) but I'd still lick that thing because dumb brain said so
fcib
BabeAfett
In my intro to geology class in college, the TA said the easiest way to identify Halite, aka salt, was to lick it. Did not want to touch those rocks without gloves.
MeatPopsicleMultiPass
Yea, well in my biology class the big chested girl told me she'd show me her boobies if I licked one of those half clam shells in the watery solution that had been sitting there for like 20 years... she lied.
BabeAfett
Always get payment first.
fcib
Remember licking salt is dissolving salt in your mouth, that is A SOLUTION. Geologist are up to something
trigonman3
It's got what babies crave!
EmeraldLight
I absolutely liked a salt lick more than once lol
EmeraldLight
LICKED, DAMNIT. LICKED!
Felberin
Doctor: "Do you use lot of salt in your food?"
OP: "No, just one crystal."
Doctor: "Hmm..."
DaveSamsonite
@OP why does it look like a little box?
Pokegeologist
Habit.
SmoeAhsolse
It follows from the crystalline structure.
DaveSamsonite
It looks like there is a translucent cube shaped box with some white stuff in the middle. I know NaCL has a cubic structure.
SmoeAhsolse
I haven't looked at the instructions OP posted, but I would guess that the solution was evaporating, getting more concentrated and it started crystallizing faster -> more messy/irregular crystals. So the outside would scatter light more, looking white.
DaveSamsonite
We shall see if they “fess up.” Yes the instructions explain how important the choice of “container” is. The walls of their container are not difficult to see and they look orthogonal to me.
DaveSamsonite
@OP I think a lot of people don’t realize that this crystal was grown inside a small cube shaped plastic box and that is mostly what we are seeing. Am I incorrect? I can see the walls of it. Looks like about 2/3 of your cube is not salt by plastic box.
crystalchase21
No, that is the entire crystal. The difference in shade is because the crystal grew at different rates throughout the growth process
DaveSamsonite
Interesting. I wish you had closeups. If you grew it in a cube shaped mold, how did you get it out? Because you need saturated liquid in contact with the growing crystal, there should be a depression or void in the middle of the open part of the mold.
DaveSamsonite
This video is interesting. I don’t know how they get a uniform seed layer tho. https://youtu.be/L03aMa1WtXo?si=JJTJFo_N4oC76zdg
JoeMangoJello
Ok, you've got your tesseract of salt. Now grow a matching hypercube of pepper.
cyclone0619
Also I feel that this shouldn't be something I need to say but, Don't Put Cats In A Box With Fucking Poison! Got it Schrodinger.
BelialDenial
I thought of something terribly clever then I forgot it
Eli93
A möbius strip of oregano.
meagain2021
That'd be sage
neochild
Thyme would fit
NationofSchrad
But if we’re talking about a peppercorn, wouldn’t it be some kind of hypersphere?
JoeMangoJello
Unless maybe it's grown in a teensy little box so it comes out cubed, like those fancy cube watermelons?
DreamPhreak
or the bonsai kittens
Abersade
DreamPhreak
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10000Bees
Table salt usually looks like tiny cubes...
BishlamekGurpgork
I mean, that's not incompatible with being a powder. And crystals being what crystals are, you would expect similar patterns large and small.
FabledAesop
Yes, salt has a cubic crystal structure and habit and is always composed of cubes.
PJVeddersGirl
Depends how close you put your face
rusrsdude
If you put it far enough, you won't see that it's a cube
abirduphigh
fantabuloustimewaster
You have excellent eyesight, young person.
10000Bees
I'm screenshotting this as proof I'm not actually 68
alphanius
Young doesn't necessarily correlate with your age
10000Bees
Being 33 helps, but you are absolutely correct
alphanius
Who is 33?
Ryebread91
I'll be 33 in May. What's it like? Will my knees still function?
Ryebread91
I'll be 33 in May. What's it like? Will my knees still function?