I'd think it's damn hard to grow single crystals out of most molecules, although maybe I'm projecting too much from my limited practical knowledge (sugar, carbon and CBN) -- single crystals in any size beyond a few atoms together. The slightest temparture, mixture or pressure gradient and va-voom a spurious seed site, a ruined crystal. Yet there's always a few easy ones in any endeavor to misdirect. The old shell game. How easy it appears to guess correctly -- "Lookie one in three chance to win, and I pay ten to one!"
Even you growing yours apply all sorts of process and chemical tricks and mechanics that some theorical little demon at the crystal face would have no idea of. He -- the crystal evolutionist such demons do be -- would insist that you do not exist!
Even you growing yours apply all sorts of process and chemical tricks and mechanics that some theorical little demon at the crystal face would have no idea ofNah. I just get a saturated solution, maybe seed with some small ones, and let nature do the rest. Works for most things I do.
But the real pros, the guys who grow protein crystals, you know what they do? They use randomness! They simply make up hundreds of different combinations of growth conditions, and select the one or two that work.
Sound familiar?
http://www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2000-12/drnl-tcr061902.php