Abstract
Experiments in crystal growth from solution illustrate many of the factors that control the physical properties of crystals. Students can grow crystals in the mineralogy or earth science laboratory with the aid of an easily constructed incubator. By means of the controlled introduction of impurities, crystals of sodium chloride can be grown that display: (1) primary growth inclusions, (2) modifications of crystal habit, (3) parallel growth, (4) lineage structure, (5) fluorescence and (6) growth twinning. Analogies can be made between the experimental conditions that result in the development of these properties in synthetic crystals, and the environments that give rise to similar properties in natural crystals.
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