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  1. Minerals

Crystals


Quartz crystal

The beauty and precision of crystals leads many people to collect minerals. They look more like cut gemstones than something that was dug up out of the ground. Each mineral has one or more crystal forms, and those forms can be used to help identify the mineral.

Crystals form in different ways, and we will explore them by growing some crystals of our own.

  • Growing Crystals From Solution
  • Making Egg Geodes
  • Growing Crystals by Cooling
  • Hydrothermal Crystals
  • Crystal Angles
  • Watching Microscopic Crystals Grow

  • Growing Crystals from Solution
  • Making Egg Geodes
  • Crystals from Cooling
  • Hydrothermal Quartz
  • Crystal Angles
  • Growing Crystals Under the Microscope
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