Overnight, most of the water will evaporate, and solid salt crystals will begin to form in the bottom of the container. Small square salt crystals are visible on the bottom of the container. What do ...

Physicist Mathieu Souzy of the University Twente was enjoying an evening of pasta and board games with several colleagues when the conversation turned to how adding salt to a pasta pot to make it boil ...

This will evaporate the water much more slowly and will result in larger crystals. Warm the salt solution to evaporate some of the water. You get larger crystals if you evaporate the water slowly.