【Magic Chemistry】21 Glittering Flowers
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This post was last edited by Desert Fish on 2017-7-1 16:42
With the recent drop in temperature, the thousand-year-old salt ponds in Yuncheng, Shanxi, have produced beautiful \"magnesium flowers,\" attracting many people to come and see them. Most of these \"magnesium flowers\" are pink in color; some resemble blooming roses, others look like crawling animals or towering pillars. Yet many more appear like sea cucumbers covered in thorns. With their diverse shapes and forms, they showcase the amazing power of nature’s creation. It is understood that \"magnesium flowers\" are crystallizations of magnesium sulfate; when the temperature is around 5 degrees Celsius, magnesium sulfate crystallizes out of the pink brine, naturally forming delicate, transparent pink \"magnesium flowers\" of various shapes. Whenever winter arrives and temperatures drop to a certain level, magnesium sulfate, sodium sulfate, and other substances in the salt ponds gradually crystallize, forming crystal-clear \"magnesium flowers\" and pure-white \"nitrate flowers\".
During the crystallization process, magnesium sulfate adheres to debris such as grass and branches in the tank, and then accumulates in a certain direction, naturally forming magnesium flowers of various shapes. Amidst the pool of pink crystals, the white crystal formed along a blade of grass stands out. After crystallizing, some magnesium sulfate forms a shape similar to that of a sea cucumber; its angular crystals are like spines scattered across the body of the sea cucumber.
This is a follow-up to the previous post, right: lol
It looks like a gem, um, a crystal!
It looks nice; the crystals of magnesium sulfate.