[Chase’s] post titled “How to Grow Sodium Chloride Crystals at Home” might as well be called “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Salt Crystals (but Were Afraid to Ask).” We aren’t sure what ...

Bunn and Emmett 1 studied the growing faces of salt crystals under the microscope and observed the development of successive thin layers. These originate at a common centre on the face and spread out ...

Sodium Chloride is an alkali halide with an fcc crystal structure. The basis is two ions, a sodium cation and a chlorine anion. The crystal lattice parameter is 0.563 nm. The diagram shows both a unit ...

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A longstanding mystery about how salt dissolves in water has finally been solved, thanks to machine learning. Understanding the complete process of how sodium chloride, or salt, dissolves in water is ...

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The lab-created compounds — never seen before — might exist naturally on icy moons in the outer solar system. By Kenneth Chang Scientists have discovered two new forms of salty ice that probably do ...