| DCS # | DEMONSTRATION | REFERENCE | ABSTRACT |
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| 1R50.00 | Crystal Structure | | |
| 1R50.10 | solid shapes | MA-3 | How to make solid tetrahedrons and octahedrons. |
| 1R50.15 | solid models | A-1e | Styrofoam balls and steel ball bearings are used to make crystal models. |
| 1R50.16 | sphere packing | 40-1.17 | Balls are stacked on vertical rods mounted on a board to build various crystal structures. Diagram. |
| 1R50.17 | Moduledra crystal models | AJP 31(3),190 | Tetrahedral and octahedral building blocks are used to construct a large variety of crystal shapes. Many pictures. |
| 1R50.18 | elastic crystal models | AJP 39(5),545 | Crystal models are built with a combination of compression and tension springs. |
| 1R50.20 | crystal models | PIRA 1000 | |
| 1R50.20 | crystal models | 1R50.20 | |
| 1R50.20 | crystal lattice models | A-1d | Have many crystal lattice models available. |
| 1R50.20 | crystal models | Disc 16-15 | Show lattice models of sodium chloride, calcium carbonate, graphite, and diamond. |
| 1R50.21 | ice model | MA-4 | How to make ball and stick water molecules that can be stuck together to make ice. |
| 1R50.22 | tennis ball crystals | MA-2 | Old tennis balls glued together to give two close packed crystals. |
| 1R50.25 | Poisson contraction model | 18-1.7 | A two dimensional spring model to show Poisson contraction in crystals. |
| 1R50.29 | crystal overlays | 40-1.18 | Colored overlays of crystal structure for use on the overhead projector. Picture. |
| 1R50.30 | crystal structure | H-43 | Show natural crystals of salt, quartz, and other minerals, and lantern slides of snow crystals. |
| 1R50.31 | crystal growth from melt | AJP 41(5),744 | Several organic compounds produce good crystals from melts on microscope slides. |
| 1R50.31 | crystal growth in a film | Om-13 | Crystal growth on a freezing soap film is observed through crossed Polaroids |
| 1R50.31 | ice nuclei | Hl-11 | Large ice crystals form on the surface of a supercooled saturated sugar solution. |
| 1R50.32 | make tin crystal | AJP 34(2),167 | Pour pure tin into a Pyrex mold, other steps. |
| 1R50.40 | crystal fault model | PIRA 1000 | |
| 1R50.40 | array of spheres | AJP 37(8),789 | Prepare a slide with a monolayer of 2.68 micron diameter polymer spheres that exhibits grain boundaries, extended dislocations, etc. |
| 1R50.40 | stacking fault model | AJP 34(11),1064 | A closest packing spheres model that demonstrates a fault going from fcc to hcp. |
| 1R50.40 | crystal faults | MA-5 | One layer of small ball bearings between two Lucite sides. |
| 1R50.40 | faults in crystal | Disc 16-16 | Show natural faults in a calcite crystal, then the single layer of small spheres model. |
| 1R50.42 | deformation front model | AJP 40(4),618 | A water film evaporating from an array of mesas shows the film edge pinned at several locations. |
| 1R50.45 | crushing salt | PIRA 1000 | |
| 1R50.45 | crushing salt | 1R50.45 | Crush a large salt crystal in a big clamp. |
| 1R50.45 | crushing salt | MA-7 | A large salt crystal is crushed in a "c" clamp. |