Eli5: How does harvesting bismuth crystals work?

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Saw a video of a person pulled a shard of metal out of a liquid, looked really cool and wanted to know how they form?

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The liquid was bismuth!
You heat solid bismuth to it’s melting point, then leave it alone to cool and crystals form as the metal solidifies. Then after a specified amount of time while some of the metal has solidified but some is still liquid you can remove the big cool chunks.

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