Making Bismuth Crystals

I had about 500 grams of bismuth lying around, so I decided to try my hand at bismuth crystal making. The first few minutes of the video show me making one batch, the rest of the video shows off crystals from several batches. If you don’t like what you get, you can just melt it again. The bismuth was placed in a steel soup ladle and melted over a gas stove burner. It is easy to melt. Allow it to cool a bit so that the surface skins over and then dump out the molten center. Bismuth is fragile and it is easy