DIY SUGAR CRYSTALS

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I show you a simple and funny chemical experiment. We used to do it at school, just take salt and grow salt crystals. In the same example, we take sugar and grow crystals from it. It will be a candy, which at the end can be eaten, which cannot but rejoice.

Ingredients you need to make sugar crystals

- 380 ml. water,
- 1 kg of sugar,
- wooden sticks - skewers,
- clothespins
- glass transparent cups - shot glasses (you can use other dishes).

Making sugar crystals

Put the water in the pan on the stove, heat a little. Add sugar and stir until completely dissolved. If it does not dissolve, heat it a little more and so on until complete dissolution without residue.
Important: do not boil water with sugar and, if possible, dispense with a lower temperature.
Our main goal is to completely dissolve sugar with minimal heat.

Prepare sticks on which you will grow crystals

Dip the sticks in water and roll them a little in icing sugar. Let dry on a plate at a pace. This is the basis on which sugar crystals will crystallize from water.

Only after the water has cooled, pour it into glasses, add food coloring if desired. I poured into several glasses and added a different color dye.
Dip the sticks into the cups and fix the clothespin in the center. The sticks should not touch the edges of the cup.

We are waiting for the crystals to grow

It takes several days to grow crystals. I advise you to remove all the glasses in an inaccessible place. Desirable in the dark. Cover to prevent dust. Wait a few days, periodically observing the process.

Crystals begin to form. Sugar also crystallizes on the surface of the glass.

The final stage - drying the crystals

After all the crystals have grown, you need to get them, breaking the surface that formed. And put in an empty glass to dry excess fluid. In time it will take about a day, everything has dried out for me in a night.

You can try it!
Beautiful and mouth-watering candies beckon to put them in your mouth. So feel free to enjoy.
You can make small crystals by taking toothpicks and glasses.