crystals

how do you create your own crystals and their colour

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You can't create crystals, only the earth and time can do that.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you're asking.

You can create crystals from copper sulphate and sugar
ect

Crystals you can make, they sell kits at toy stores that allow you to grow different color crystals of all shapes and sizes. But there is a difference between a crystal and a gem. A crystal is manly a solidified chemical structure or compound (iodine makes a nice purple crystal). Gems are made of crystallized minerals and metals (anything from diamond to quartz)and take countless centuries to make and craft in the earth including tremendous temperature and pressure that cant be repeated in a lab. Sorry but Gems cant be human made yet. Also crystals are fragile and can shatter with picked up while gems generally wont.

thanks but on this site someone tells you how to make a crystal ill try it and see thanks

This link might help you with growing copper sulfate crystals:

http://chemistry.about.com/od/crystalrecipes/a/coppersulfate.htm

A thing to keep in mind though is that they don't last, and you have to be careful when handling them.

Here's a link for growing sugar crystals:

http://chemistry.about.com/od/growingcrystals/ht/blsugarcrystal.htm

I wouldn't recommend using either of these methods for creating crystals to use in your practice, however the copper sulfate crystals are pretty for a short while, and who doesn't like rock candy? :)

thanks