AAGGHHHH!!!!
Molecules do NOT reproduce! A molecule of salt does NOT make another molecule of salt from itself!
oh help.......
The 'reproduction' of crystalline structures has to do with the ORDER of the molecules, not their newness! Crystals grow because their structure is the lattice upon which other similar molecules attach, thus forming MORE of a crystal structure. Nothing is replicating itself!
please, please, PLEASE think!