On 02/08/12 06:49, Enrico Stura wrote:

 On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:08:23 +0100, Theresa H. Hsu
 <theresah...@live.com>  wrote:

 A little off from the original question. Why don't small crystals
 dissolve to make a bigger crystal, especially when the small ones
 grow on top of each other?

Sometimes they do. Key phrase: Ostwald ripening.

http://xray.bmc.uu.se/terese/crystallization/tutorials/tutorial6.html

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