Aisle 7No. 115 of 460
Splashery
Crystal Lattice
499,904 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Atoms · Built from a recipe
Crystal Lattice
In a crystal, atoms are lined up in a pattern that repeats over and over, like tiles on a floor.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap to send a wave through it. Hands-on: push a slice up or down; it springs back.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 115 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 7, Atoms
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 499,904
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- CC0
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Send a wave through | Tap | ||
| Wave | Button | ||
| Crystal | List | 11 choices | Salt (NaCl) |
About it
In a crystal, atoms are lined up in a pattern that repeats over and over, like tiles on a floor. In table salt, sodium and chlorine take turns in rows of little cubes. Diamond and graphite are both pure carbon: in diamond each atom holds on to four others, which makes it very hard, while graphite's flat sheets slide apart, which is why a pencil writes.
Tap it to send a wave through it: a ripple runs across, each slice of atoms rising and falling in turn, the bonds between them stretching and bending. Sound and heat travel through solids as waves like this. In ice, the water molecules spread out into an open pattern, so ice floats on water. Metals, quartz and graphene are in the Splash tab too.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,041 at Low, and up to 720,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Steel chain soft drop (crystal-lattice-chain.mp3) | ani_music | CC0 1.0 |
