Look at some halite crystals under a magnifying glass or microscope and observe their shapes. They are not round or triangular but cubes. The salt factory has no machines designed to give salt these...

Look at some halite crystals under a magnifying glass or microscope and observe their shapes. They are not round or triangular but cubes. The salt factory has no machines designed to give salt these cubic shapes. The cubic shape occurs naturally and mirrors how the atoms of salt are organized—cubically.