[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).” ...

Use hydrochloric acid to make a chloride, sulfuric acid to make a sulfate, and nitric acid to make a nitrate.

[Chase’s] post titled “How to Grow Sodium Chloride Crystals at Home” might as well ... If salt is too tame for you, try tin. Or opt for copper, if you prefer that.

The baryte group also includes celestite, or strontium-sulfate, used to produced purple fireworks. Baryte crystals from Morocco ... also known as sodium-chloride or common table salt.

When salty water does freeze, the ice crystals that form are made of pure water with the sodium and chloride ions pushed out into the remaining liquid. At cold enough temperatures, the residual ...