While Boyce’s crystal may be the largest single crystal of copper sulfate, students at the Kurfrüst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium in Germany hold the record for overall size. Their polymorphic crystal reached a ...
Top tips from David Boyce and his class, who have cultivated a 3kg single copper sulfate crystal A classic school experiment involves growing copper sulfate crystals. Allowing water to slowly ...
Andrzej Danel at the Agricultural University of Kraków grew this large copper(II) sulfate crystal over the course of a few weeks. Danel was inspired by Roger Hiorns’s 2008 art installation “Seizure,” ...
THE rate of growth of the centres of dehydration of CuSO 4.5H 2 O varies with the crystal direction. On the large faces of the crystal, the nuclei grow in the form of a cross and the direction of the ...