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Crystal structure morphology as a function of temperature and water saturation Temperature range Saturation range (g/m 3) Types of snow crystal below saturation Types of snow crystal above saturation 0 °C (32 °F) to −3.5 °C (26 °F) 0.0 to 0.5 Solid plates Thin plates Dendrites −3.5 °C (26 °F) to −10 °C (14 °F) 0.5 to 1.2
Snow accumulation on ground and in tree branches in Germany Snow blowing across a highway in Canada Spring snow on a mountain in France. Classifications of snow describe and categorize the attributes of snow-generating weather events, including the individual crystals both in the air and on the ground, and the deposited snow pack as it changes over time.
This process of crystal growth is known as accretion. Crystals that exhibit frozen droplets on their surfaces are often referred to as rimed. When this process continues so that the shape of the original snow crystal is no longer identifiable and has become ball-like, the resulting crystal is referred to as graupel. [4]
A snowflake is a single ice crystal that is large enough to fall through the Earth's atmosphere as snow. [1] [2] [3] Snow appears white in color despite being made of clear ice. This is because the many small crystal facets of the snowflakes scatter the sunlight between them. [4] Macro photography of a natural snowflake
Crystal of titanite with adularia and minor clinochlore on matrix Fluorite crystal sitting beside a glassy, dark green tourmaline crystal, which itself sits atop a green tourmaline of a lighter color. All sit on a bed of sparkly, bladed stark white albite Crystals of turquoise, from Copper Cities Mine, Globe-Miami District, Arizona, USA
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1675 - Friedrich Martens, a German physician, catalogues 24 types of snow crystal. [6] [7] 1681 - Donato Rossetti categorizes snow crystals in La figura della neve. 1778 - Dutch theologian Johannes Florentius Martinet diagrams precise sketches of snow crystals. [8] [9] [10] 1796 - Shiba Kōkan publishes sketches of ice crystals under a microscope.
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