10 Colored Crystal Recipes

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Updated on July 23, 2018

This is a list of colored crystal projects. These crystal colors are natural, not caused by food coloring or another additive. You can grow natural crystals in pretty much any color of the rainbow!

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Purple - Chromium Alum Crystals

Purple chrome alum or chromium alum crystal — Ra'ike/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0

These crystals are deep violet if you use pure chromium alum. If you mix the chromium alum with regular alum, you can get lavender crystals. This is a stunning type of crystal that is easy to grow.

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Blue - Copper Sulfate Crystals

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Many people find this to be the most beautifully colored crystal you can grow yourself. This crystal is also easy to grow. You can order this chemical or you may be able to find it sold as an algicide for use in pools, fountains, or aquaria.

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Blue-Green - Copper Acetate Monohydrate Crystals

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This recipe produces lovely blue-green monoclinic crystals.

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Golden Yellow - Rock Candy

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Sugar crystals grown using white sugar are clear, though they can be made any color using food coloring. If you use raw sugar or brown sugar, your rock candy will be naturally gold or brown.

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Orange - Potassium Dichromate Crystals

Potassium dichromate is also known as the mineral lopezite.

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Potassium dichromate crystals will be bright orange rectangular prisms. It's an unusual color for crystals, so be sure to give it a try.

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Clear - Alum Crystals

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These crystals are clear. Though they do not have bright colors, they can be grown quite large and in a wonderful array of shapes.

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Silver - Silver Crystals

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Silver crystals are a common crystal to grow for observation under a microscope, though they can be grown larger, too.

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White - Baking Soda Stalactites

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These white baking soda or sodium bicarbonate crystals are intended to simulate stalactite formation in a cave.

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Glowing - Fluorescent Alum Crystals

These easy-to-grow alum crystals glow, thanks to the addition of a little fluorescent dye to the crystal growing solution. Anne Helmenstine

Making crystals that glow when exposed to black light is as easy as making non-glowing crystals. The color of the glow you get depends on the dye that you add to the crystal solution.

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Black - Borax Crystals

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You can make crystals that are translucent or solid black by adding black food coloring to ordinary clear borax crystals.

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