> Thanks for the help- I won't worry about it. am I to understand that the
> precipitate is sodium metaborate? Jamie
>
...had more or less the same problem, I "grew" a beautifull big marble
sized transparent crystal of SodiumMetaBorate, although I used ultrapure
water and some EDTA, I just enlarged the volume of solution "B" to twice
the start volume and use twice as much "B"...
>
Cor Breukel
http://ruly70.medfac.leidenuniv.nl/~cor/cor.html
"The Infrared Gallery"
http://ruly70.medfac.leidenuniv.nl/~cor/ir-gallery.html