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From: jkearns61@aol.comCdZnTe (JKearns61) Newsgroups: sci.techniques.xtallography Subject: Re: Need Help with school project please Date: 24 Oct 2000 19:27:59 GMT Harry Powell's web pages are very good. A truly great reference for young people is Holden's classic book "Crystals and Crystal Growing". It is still in print and available at major resellers (e.g., Borders) for ~ $12, or much cheaper for used copies from WWW book search engines (e.g., Advanced Book Exchange, www.abebooks.com). To add to that, you may be able to find in libraries the more advanced experiment apparatus companion book "Growing Crystals with a Rotary Crystallizer" (also by Holden); it is out of print since 1964 and hard to find used. Joel Kearns jkearns61@aol.com

Links via the British Crystallographic Association (What are crystals?)
- http://gordon.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/BCA/ed/wond.html

Links via Harry Powel site (including the National Crystal Growing Competition 2001)
- http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/harry/crystal/
- What is a Crystal?: http://www.seawhy.com/xl.html
- Details of the Canadian 2002 crystal growing competition: http://www.seawhy.com/XL2002.html
- Details of the Canadian 1999 crystal growing competition: http://www.seawhy.com/xl99.html
- What is a Crystal?: http://www.chemistry.co.nz/crystals_defined.htm
- Snow Crystals: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/
- The Alabama Crystal Growing Competition: http://sciences.aum.edu/phs/crys1.html
- Colossal Crystal Contest - Internet Project Plan : http://www.uwm.edu/~caberg/nowak.html

Paul Boyle site on Crystal Growing for Students: Some recipes for growing crystals
- http://www.xray.ncsu.edu/student_xtal.html
- UK CCP14 Mirror
- Also has links to (Oct 2000):
  - Growing Crystals: http://trc2.ucdavis.edu/CoursePages/Excites/activities/gc.html
  - Experiments in Growing Crystals: http://rockhoundingar.com/pebblepups/growcryst.html
  - Make Your Own Crystal Garden: http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/publications/crystal.html
  - Crystal Growing Space Age Crystals: http://www.books4kids.com/crystal.html
  - The crystal page: http://www.freeweb.pdq.net/headstrong/crys.htm
  - Creative Science Tutorial for Children at Home: http://www.kerala.com/science/project1_page1.htm
  - Crystal Gardens: http://www.yesmag.bc.ca/projects/crystal_gardens.html
  - Science Projects: http://www.oxnard.org/project.html

Crystal Growth, Evaluation and Handling by Alexander J. Blake, School of Chemistry, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~pczajb2/growcrys.htm

Tips for Crystal Growing
- http://www.cryst.chem.uu.nl/growing.html

Crystallization in Gels
- http://www.cryst.chem.uu.nl/lutz/growing/gel.html

Growing Crystals That Will Make Your Crystallographer Happy
- http://www.xray.ncsu.edu/GrowXtal.html

MadSci Network (is stated as having an area on Crystallography)
- http://www.madsci.org/

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