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The Role of Salts in Crystal Structures
The first element that we talked about was the fact that salts, which this is another thing that for like non-chemists people, we wouldn't really know this definition of is. But are all salts want to be like in a crystal? I think they can be. You can look up giant salt crystal cave and you'll see like the giant crystal and repeating structures. And so it when it settles down into its solid state, it lines up those units. It's orderly on a molecular level and then to our eyes, that looks really beautiful.
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