The most eye-catching thing about iodine sublimation is the bright purple color of the vapor. But the halogen’s crystalline solid form has its own, often overlooked, beauty too, says Brent Rubio, an ...

Mirry Criel, an undergraduate at the University Institute of Technology in Montpellier, made these iodine crystals for her inorganic chemistry course. The apparatus she used (held upside-down in this ...

A chance observation due to dust contamination has uncovered a surprising new process of fluid transport when a crystal surface interacts with water. Schematic representation of structural changes ...