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SnowFlake LAB!

Making the Snowflake Frame


1. Get 3 pieces of pipecleaner.
2. Arrange them so that they look evenly spaced.
3. Starting with the top pipecleaner, and moving clockwise around
the figure, twist two adjacent pipecleaner pieces together.
4. Continue to twist until you arrive back at the start of the
snowflake.
5. Wrap a piece of string around the pipecleaners as a hanging
device.
6. Tie the string to a pencil.

Making the Solution


1. Begin by getting a large beaker (400 mL or more).
2. Fill the beaker with water at least 3/4 of the way full.
3. Set the beaker on a hot plate and allow the water to warm to a
simmer.
4. Slowly add small amounts of borax while stirring.
5. Allow the borax to dissolve completely, then add more.
6. Continue to add borax until you can no longer get it to dissolve
into the water.
7. Bring the water up to a boil. If the borax disappears, add more
until again you can no longer get any more to dissolve into the
water.

Growing the Crystal!


1. Remove the saturated borax solution from the heat.
2. Suspend your snowflake frame in the solution so that it is
completely covered. Try not to jostle the solution too much.
3. Carefully move the container, with hot-hands, to the designated
place on the side of the room.

!!!!Cleaning up!!!!
1. Carefully wash the dish that held the borax and the stirring rod
you used to make the solution with soap and water. Leave them
to dry on the paper towels next to the sink.
2. Use a sponge and some soapy water to wash the table where
you were working.
3. Wash the ring stand and anything else that borax ended up on.
4. Return goggles and aprons to the appropriate locations.
5. Dispose of all paper towels and other trash in the appropriate
receptacles near the door.

Optional Extension Project:

Bonding and intermolecular forces found in Borax is pretty


exciting. The chemical is called sodium tetraborate. It has several
water molecules attached, which further complicate the bonding.
Neglecting the waters (they make it something called a hydrated
crystal), fill in the rest of this page with a description the ionic and
covalent bonding that you observe, along with any comments on
properties such as molecular geometry and polarity that you can
explain. Discuss the types of intermolecular forces borax would
display and how that would affect its solubility in water. Do not go
beyond what you can fit on this page, and if you want me to read it,
don’t write so small I need to borrow a microscope to see it. You can
include a diagram if it helps you make a point. (10 pts, optional)

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