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Take normal sugar and add it to boiling water. Add as much as the water will hold. Put a string or thin stick in the mixture and let it cool and set for many days. The resulting crystals are an example of how nature makes crystals over much longer timescales.

If you want a bigger crystal, repeat the experiment while letting the string or stick from the previous experiment bathe in the mixture.

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