Crystal-clear : The &quot;2014 Most Superlative Crystal Growth Contest&quot; for School Classes

Perret, Didier; Hagemann, Hans-Rudolf; Cerny, Radovan; Renner, Christoph; Giannini, Enrico; Guenee, Laure; Besnard, Céline; Gerard, David; Windels, Lionel

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Title		Crystal-clear : The "2014 Most Superlative Crystal Growth Contest" for School Classes
Authors		Perret, Didier Hagemann, Hans-Rudolf Cerny, Radovan Renner, Christoph Giannini, Enrico Guenee, Laure Besnard, Céline Gerard, David Windels, Lionel show all authors [1 - 9]
Published in		Chimia. 2014, vol. 68, no. 12, p. 893-895
Abstract		To celebrate the International Year of Crystallography among the general public, a consortium of chemists, physicists and crystallographers of the University of Geneva organised in Spring 2014 an incentive crystal growth contest for Geneva scholars aged 4 to 19. Starting from a kit containing a salt and user instructions, classes had to prepare a crystal that met specific criteria according to their category of age. The composition of the salt – potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) – was only disclosed to the participants during the final Awards Ceremony. This contest positively exceeded our expectations with almost 100 participating classes (ca. 1800 participants) and 54 specimens received over all categories.
Keywords		Chimiscope — PhysiScope — International Year of Crystallography — Contest — Crystal growth — School — Outreach
Identifiers		DOI: 10.2533/chimia.2014.893
Full text		Article (Published version) (262 Kb) - Limited access to UNIGE
Structures		Faculté des sciences / Section de chimie et biochimie / Département de chimie minérale, analytique et appliquée Faculté des sciences / Section de chimie et biochimie / Département de chimie physique Faculté des sciences / Section de chimie et biochimie / Département de chimie organique Faculté des sciences / Section de physique / Département de physique de la matière quantique
Citation (ISO format)		PERRET, Didier et al. Crystal-clear : The "2014 Most Superlative Crystal Growth Contest" for School Classes. In: Chimia, 2014, vol. 68, n° 12, p. 893-895. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:46708