High temperatures and ionizing radiation create extremely corrosive environments inside a nuclear reactor. To design ...

Some crystals look very similar but here are a couple of ways to tell them apart. The salt may look a little grayer than the sugar which may look whiter than the salt. The alum may sparkle a little ...

snowflakes (ice crystals), diamonds, and salts, such as the Epsom salt in this activity. When the water used to dissolve the Epsom salt evaporates, the salt particles arrange themselves into a ...

Researchers have found special atomic patterns called quasicrystals in 3D-printed aluminum alloys. Quasicrystals increase the strength of 3D-printed aluminum, the researchers discovered, making it ...

This finding, published in Matter, overturns traditional views of crystal formation. Remember those classic high school chemistry experiments where salt crystals form from saltwater, or rock candy ...

Here are some salt crystals that we made earlier. Now, although copper sulfate is a salt, it is not edible. In fact, copper sulfate is classified as harmful if swallowed and can cause serious eye ...

It's similar to melting table salt crystals until they flow without adding ... both in the Lab's Chemistry Division. Wishart and his collaborators used these facilities to measure the rates ...