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Watch Beautiful Crystals Form Right Before Your Eyes

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This is cool. Emanuele Fornasier ran an electric current through various chemical solutions and recorded the reaction to reveal the formation of crystals. It’s like seeing the birth of a snowflake. The process definitely looks fantastic but in reality, it’s really, really slow. It can take hours or even days for the crystals to take shape.

[Emanuele Fornasier via Colossal]

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