3D grain of salt aims for world record in Vienna


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 26 Nov 2015

Crystal clear: Krickl (right) introducing his crystal structure model, registered as largest model of this type at the Guinness Book of Records, at the city hall in Vienna, Austria.

VIENNA: A three-dimensional model magnifying a grain of salt by a billion times went on show in Vienna on Nov 23, aiming to make it into the Guinness Book of Records. 

Made of 38,880 red and white plastic balls representing atoms of sodium and chloride and 10 kilometres (six miles) of sticks, it aims to be the world's biggest model of a crystal molecule. 

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