How I Make a CRYSTAL LAMP (From things in your Kitchen!) | How to make borax crystals

Did you know you can make crystals with Borax and water? I didn't until this week so I wanted to do an experiment and see what I could make! So obviously I made a lamp.

Making borax crystals is super easy. All you have to do is bring water to a boil and mix in some borax. You want to keep adding borax until no more will dissolve into the water. I just kept adding more until I noticed some in the bottom of the container. Then just suspend something in the mixture and crystals will grow on it!

One thing to note, though, is that if whatever you're trying to grow crystals on is not porous, there's a very high chance the crystals will just fall off once you take it out. To fix this problem I made a batch of "seed crystals" and epoxied those onto the outside of the soda bottle. That gave the new crystals something to bond to and kept them from just falling off afterwards.

This was a super cool project and I definitely plan on trying more crystal growing experiments. What do you think I should try?

Things I used :

Borax : https://amzn.to/2DoYcLI
Orange Soda : https://amzn.to/2GylLDJ
Stock pot : https://amzn.to/2XvE1my
Hot Plate : https://amzn.to/2GiMdzC
Cement All : https://amzn.to/2DsDzhv
Light Bulb : https://amzn.to/2IC4uMf
Food Coloring : https://amzn.to/2VcHqt1