LevitatingGod said:
Aum_Shanti said:
I just would like to make a single giant cube or something
Well as I understood it, DMT has 2 distinct crystal structures (polymorph) and none of them has 90° edges. So growing a cube is impossible.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
My dmt crystal was literally a cube as a seed and almost completed as a cube but a few things altered the final outcome. So as for it being 'impossible' it's not. Anything is possible, "impossible" is going on all around us in a variety of ways, indefinitely.
I know the form a crystal takes on is based upon several things, one major one being the vibrations creating/aligning the formation(Kymatica/Cymatics). So theoretically(I will find out asap as I am working to see how to test this theory) if a frequency could be applied in a controlled way, you could potentially alter the crystals form entirely, even after its fully grown.
See this is where you start to make things up. It is no question that pressure waves , even electromagnetic waves, can have an effect on the growth of crystal structure, but it is very minor compared to the much greater factors that you completely ignore in favor of the mystical and new age sounding factors.
Solvent, concentration, temperature, rate of change in concentration, rate of change in temperature, impurity type and concentration, these all have many magnitudes greater change in crystal structure then soundwaves. For example, the well known cubic salt crystals of NaCl can become needle like with just a few drops of an organic impurity. Most altered structures come about by distrupting the growth on the faces of the crystals, these altered structures are not considered different polymorphs either.
Just because it looked perfectly cubic when it was small, doesn't mean the final structure is a cube, many orthorhombic crystals in their growth patterns go through a cubic phase. I am not saying what it is or what it isn't I am saying visual observation IS deceiving.
I'm also not saying you didn't take this stuff into account, obviously you had to , to get that result. But before you go adding things try repeating it, soon you will find completely different results for a reason you do not yet know or could not account for. This way you can better discount claims of something else your doing causing another effect. Correlation is not causation. You can by all means play with it, play is fun I do it all the time, it can lead to great success on occasion, but it's not science, it can fool you.
If you can repeat it, try changing the solvent. You are using naphtha, for example, the 1% of some aromatic component could have a drastic effect that you wouldn't see using heptane.