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Borax Pipe Cleaner Hanging Crystals
It is a very interesting and fun activity of growing crystals with the chemical called Borax. Borax is a chemical sold in the market as a laundry booster or an insecticide. It does not accept food coloring. You can also use a pipe cleaner, bend it into fun shapes (stars, flowers, hearts, and more), and dip it into the borax solution overnight. You can see the crystal grow in the fun shape of pipe cleaners and get colorful crystals growing with the color of pipe cleaners.
Required material:
- pan with a wide mouth
- Borax
- Pipe cleaners
- Water
- Tablespoon
- String
- Scissors
- Food coloring (optional)
Methods to Grow Hanging Crystals
- Twist the pipe cleaners with your desired shape (like a star, flower, or any shape you desire)
- Take a wide-mouth pan such that the pipe cleaner easily fits into the jar with plenty of shape around it. (if not it will become harder to remove once the crystals are formed)
- Tie one end of the string into the shape of a pipe cleaner and another end of the string is tied to the pencil or stick.
- Now hang the pipe cleaner shape in the jar with the pencil resting on the mouth of the jar. Make sure that it does not touch the bottom or sides of the pan. Now your hanging shape with proper measurement is ready. Take it out and keep it aside.
- Now fill 3/4 of your pan with water using the measuring cup. Take account of the number of cups required to fill 3/4 of the jar.
- Heat the pan with water till it boils and set it aside. Add 3 tablespoons of Borax for every cup of water. Stir well until Borax dissolves completely in water.
- To prepare a saturated solution add more Borax till no more borax can be dissolved into the water.
- Now hang the pipe cleaners into the Borax saturated solution such that it is completely covered in the solution.
- Keep the setup aside without disturbing overnight. The next day you could see the crystals grown over the shape of the pipe cleaner.
- Now gently remove the crystals and let the crystals dry.
It is a really interesting project to gift your friends with beautiful crystals and enjoy.
Science Behind:
When the solution is hot it dissolves more borax. Once the solution gets cool down Borax molecules attach to the shape of the pipe cleaners like snowflakes.
Real ice crystals are made of only water, when the water vapor freezes when it goes to the clouds and again falls to the ground like snowflakes. Frost is another form of ice crystal you can see on cold mornings that you can see on windows and grass.
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