STEAM with Dad

Have you ever tried growing crystals at home? If you visit the shops with your parents, I am sure you have seen crystal growing kits before, but there are also plenty of tutorials online so I decided to do at home because I knew I would learn more. You can make many different type of crystals with every day items, but I choose sugar because apart from looking nice they are edible. Every crystal starts with the same process, by making a saturated solution. A solution is when we dissolve something called the "solute" into a liquid called the "solvent". In my case, sugar is the solute and water is the solvent. At the beginning if we put some sugar in the water and stir it will disappear, but if we keep adding sugar, eventually it will not disappear. This point is what we call a saturated solution.  Normally, you would expect that the amount of solute you put in is less than the solvent. That is true for most things, but not for sugar. Surprisingly, you can put up to a ...