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How do you make an existing crystal grow without it becoming brittle?
I heard that there was a type of material that you could place a crystal on to help it grow. I was wondering what that was and if there was any way of doing it so that the crystal itself didn't break easily. If not, what solution could you use to do it instead?
1 Answer
- AlexPalmerLv 77 years ago
This really depends on what the crystal is made of. But in the vast majority of cases, without remelting the existing crystal so that the existing bonds break and re-form with the additional crystal that you're adding, the plane between the old and new crystals will always be an area of reduced stability because only weak bonds can form between two solids.
