* 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).