The physics of snowflakes
One could say that snowflakes are simply frozen water — but if you compare a snowflake to an ice cube, you’ll notice a big difference. Why are all snowflakes six-sided? Why are none of them exactly the same? And how do we ski on them?
Though we know that their shapes have to do with the many possible branching points in snowflake formation and the differences in temperature and humidity, it is true that no matter how hard you look, you’re almost definitely not going to find two identical snowflakes.
Watch & learn from TED-Ed Lesson :
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-science-of-snowflakes-marusa-bradac
Animation: bottomless well films
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Corina Marinescu another awesome person from whom to learn about snowflakes, AND who posts phenomenal snowflake photos for 100 days every winter, is Don Komarechka. He's published a book on it, too: https://skycrystals.ca/product/sky-crystals-unraveling-the-mysteries-of-snowflakes-book/
ReplyDeleteI recently purchased a pre-print 24 x 36 edition of his Snowflake poster and can't wait to get it back from framing this week.
Awesome info, merci beaucoup :)
ReplyDeleteCorina Marinescu most welcome. :-) I got him to start putting his Snowflake-a-day images into a Collection, so it's easier to find them all (this year, at least) here: https://plus.google.com/collection/YIF_v
ReplyDeleteMore beautiful collections of water.
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