W11
Salt, sugar,
citric acid
Can you make them
visible again?
 

* Left: In the previous experiment you have mixed grains of sugar, citric acid and salt with drops of water on a black plastic surface:  * They became invisible as they werde dissolved.
* Leave the solution for evaporation of the water. * Right: The 3 white solids are visble again:
  Salt forms small cubes, citric acid reappears as small fans, sugar does not show a special shape.
Remember : Solids with a regular shape are called crystals. The separation of crystals from liquids is called   crystallisation.  (Snow flakes are water crystals).



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