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@zleap

Rock salt, is usually very far from pure, particularly the kind used for melting ice. You need pretty pure salt to create nice crystals. That said if the rock salt were pure it would work as good as any. Once its dissolved in the water salt is salt if its pure. The seed crystal wont matter so much if its from rock salt or small granualted salt if its a single crystal.

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@zleap

The size of the seed crystal shouldnt matter too much. The key should be very slow formation (control the rate at which water evaporates to slow it) and ensuring the container you use has no nucleation sites other than the starter crystal.

Of course you also need to make sure your seed crystal is itself a perfect single crystal and not multiple crystals.

@piggo

@obsolete29 yea my macbook pro has been running it flawless for like a decade.

@realcaseyrollins crystal clear waters as my playground will be a wonderful recovery :)

Yup...

@realcaseyrollins after years of recovery from a back injury to finally be able to head back to the ocean will be amazing.

@realcaseyrollins yes, very soon.

@realcaseyrollins I desperately need a vacation.

@realcaseyrollins I will be in that mode soon, I hope!

@realcaseyrollins Well I'm glad you're back. Wouldn't be the same without ya.

@a1ba Star Trek reference.

@a1ba Quark is that you?

@lucifargundam Its only important to us because we are alive. Outside of life it is pretty unremarkable as a chemical or a solvent except for being unusually strongly polar and selective as a solvent.

@lucifargundam I didnt know water could even have a resume!

What is your favorite multi-chemical acid formulation?

#chemistry

@lucifargundam Aquia Regia is my favorite acid.