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Growing Crystals In Different Temperatures

Benjamin Bloomfield
Introduction
● How does difference in water temperature affect crystal growth.
● Scientists in the International Space Station have figured out that growing crystals in
microgravity enhances their growing abilities.
● They use this to figure out how to better solve illnesses and diseases.
● How they do this is they crystallize proteins that are in your body.
● After doing this these proteins are easier to analyze.
● Hence the better and longer the crystal the easier it is to analyze these crystals.
● The article “Crystallizing Proteins in Space Helping to Identify Potential Treatments for
Diseases” from Nasa.gov explains this and why this research is relevant.
● To help in this field I am finding the best conditions to grow crystals.
● This experiment will be testing different water temperatures and seeing their results on the
crystals grown.
Methods
1. Prepare three jars with pencils that have strings on them in the jars. The string should not
touch the bottom of the jar.
2. Pour little bit of Sodium Tetraborate into a pot full of hot water. Stir and wait until the Sodium
Tetraborate dissolves. Do this again until the Sodium Tetraborate stops dissolving in the
solution.
3. Then pour the liquid into the three jars equally.
4. Cover the jars in plastic wrap.
5. Wait around five hours for the crystals to grow around the string.
6. Measure their mass and length and put them into a data chart.
Results
The Crystals that grew in colder water grew more

in mass than the other. The Crystals that were

grown in the warmer water grew less in mass. The


length was
different

throughout the

different

temperatures.
Discussion
● These representations of data show that crystals grown in colder temperatures produce
smaller individual crystals but grow more individual crystals in the same amount of time.
● The representations also show how crystals grown in warmer temperatures grow bigger
individual crystals, but grow less individual crystals.
● This data was created after measuring the crystals.
● The length of the crystal grown in the 4.44° C was shorter than the one in 18.03° C. This is an
error that goes against the data and could have been caused by many factors.
● This does not prove that there is no change when temperature is changed.
● The difference in temperature does make a change in the crystal’s growth. The colder
temperatures make the crystals grow more.
Conclusions
● This experiment was a success because it showed the difference in the change of growth
when temperature is changed.
● This research affects the research area that I’m in because now we know that microgravity
plus cold temperatures make crystal growth go faster and grow more.
● Now that we know this crystal growth can go faster and almost twice as efficient.
● All in all my hypothesis was wrong. My hypothesis was that the crystals in the warmer
temperatures would grow faster and grow more. It was incorrect because the crystals that
grew in the colder water grew more and faster.
References
● Crystallizing Proteins in Space Helping to Identify Potential Treatments for Diseases
(Nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/crystallizing-proteins-in-space-helping-to-identify-pot
ential-treatments-for-diseases/)
● How to Grow the Largest Crystals
(https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/Chem_p082/chemistry/ho
w-to-grow-the-best-and-the-largest-crystals)

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