Interesting crystal behaviour
So I've been making some copper sulphate for crystal growing, using an in situ nitric acid intermediate as opposed to an electrochemical setup. I had
quite a bit of crude solution remaining after converting the majority to the oxide and hydroxide, so I left it to crystallise for a few weeks to
examine the morphology of the crystals that formed. What's interesting is the fluffy, coral like structures of (what I presume to be) KHSO4/KNO3 that
have managed to grow in the open atmosphere, and the globular formations of contaminated CuSO4. Won't be much of a task to purify the sulphate either
as you can see.
Whoops, changed K2SO4 to KHSO4 because I just realised that bisulfate won't react with potassium nitrate.
[Edited on 20-9-2017 by LearnedAmateur]
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