I have grew some huge, but EXTREMELY FRAGILE crystals of baking soda (Sodium bicarbinate). What are some easy methods that I can use to preserve these substences. Any ideas will be appreciated, to help my fragile beuties.

In an oil container as the HCO will not react with them, also most things inert to the substance.....or do you just want to coat the crystals inb a substance?

heh, you could try a nice inert organic liquid...

well, basically, i want a way to harden them, so they wont crumble when ever I touch them. Could you give me a common example of how to do this, and yes, maybe a coating?

Well i dont really know any methods of changing bicarbonates into something more solid and strong the only thing i can think of is to coat them in say a glue (spray on) and do several layers untill the desired coat stregth is found, probably use a ceramic sort of glue....this process will take some time

Hmm, maybe Ill use a test crystal first.

Thanks for the idea, Crash.

np, btw i had some crystals once i tried to do this with and the glue reacted so its best to assess this first