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Neo's avatar

salt crystals are perfectly straight macroscopically because single salt molecules are cubic. Additional molecules can only bond to one the six faces of the cube. So, no matter how big the crystal becomes, the edges will always be straight or at right angles to each other.

I make my iodine sski lugols and elemental iodide

I know China supplies much of the iodine prills that aré imported and used to mass manf iodine

I’ll put some on a slide 🛝 soon

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AlmostLastRepublicaninSeattle's avatar

Sorry but can someone explain exactly what was being looked at? Table salt? And manufactured salt crystals? Okay, I’ll read it all again. This is crazy to see this in salt. 🙈

How does this happen?

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