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Yeah... about this whole crystal growing business.

A salt crystal growing guide from the same site was on the front page a couple (?) of months ago. Looked interesting and easy enough, so I gave it a try. So far it has been a complete fiasco second in scale only to my attempt at making pancakes at the ripe age of 5. Pretty much I just got salt back so far, lol.

So, caveat emptor.

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One very passive method that has worked well for me in the past was to prepare a highly-concentrated salt solution (5M -- 292 g salt per liter of water) and then let the water evaporate very slowly (like only slightly open to the outside world) and left undisturbed. This left me with a roughly 2cm x 2cm x 1cm crystal of salt that is incredibly transparent (save small impurities in the center) with nice cubic features on the broad face.

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