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Chemistry of
Crystals
Eating Dieffenbachia is not advised. Your mouth will swell up
and you won't be able to talk or breathe. Some people have died from
eating this plant. Usually the blame for this nastiness is laid on the
crystals (seen at right), but, strangely, some plants with calcium oxalate
crystals are not poisonous. It has been proposed that nasty chemicals
are present on the crystals. We would like to test this. |
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But first, we have to isolate the crystals away from the rest of the
cell. Getting the cells to all shoot out their crystals in
coordination has not proven easy. |
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