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Article: The National Crystal Growing Competition.(National Chemistry Week)
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- Canadian Chemical News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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The National Crystal Growing Competition has been a major part of National Chemistry Week (NCW) for many years. Thanks to sponsors Anachemia Science, who supplied the rochelle salt needed to grow the crystals, and BASF Canada, who provided regional t-shirt prizes as well as the national cash prizes and student prizes, this competition continues to play an important role in promoting chemistry to high school students. This was another record-breaking year for the National Crystal Growing Competition: we set a new record for overall score of 80.5 percent surpassing last year's record of 80.3 percent. This was accomplished by the team of students Kshitiz Gupta, Peter Ao, and ...