WHEN copper sulphate pentahydrate is dehydrated in a vacuum at room temperature, the resulting product, of composition copper sulphate monohydrate, possesses no evident crystal structure as shown by X ...

A scientist-turned-artist has taken dead bees and used them as a scaffold for deep blue copper sulphate crystals. Simon Park, a senior lecturer in microbiology at the University of Surrey, told ...

YOU MIGHT CALL IT Roger Hiorns' blue period. In "SEIZURE," his latest and most ambitious work, the 33-year-old English artist has taken a derelict London studio apartment and encrusted it floor to ...

When you look at these crystals, do you see birds in flight? Samie Yaseen did, when he found them at the bottom of a beaker that had formerly held a copper sulfate solution. He left the solution out ...

Crystallization is a common method in synthetic chemistry that allows the isolation and purification of compounds, and also aids their characterization through techniques such as X-ray crystallography ...