How do you make rock candy and chocolate fudge? What makes one sugary sweet hard and crunchy but the other soft and chewy? Cammie provides an answer through a discussion of nucleation and crystal growth.
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OUTLINE:
0:00 Introduction
0:24 Ming’s fudge conundrum
0:43 Crystalline materials
1:21 How do crystals form?
2:02 Making rock candy
3:31 Homogeneous nucleation
4:35 Heterogeneous nucleation
5:41 Distribution of crystal sizes
6:30 How to prevent grainy fudge
CREDITS:
Written, presented, and edited by Camille Farruggio and Mingyu Yang
With additional input from Ethan Rosenberg, Robin Lindemann, and Jacqueline Baidoo
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
We are grateful for the support of the MIT Department of Materials Science & Engineering (dmse.mit.edu) and Dr. Rohan Kundargi, K-12 Outreach Coordinator of MIT's Office of Government and Community Relations.
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