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  2. Wilson Bentley - Wikipedia

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    Wilson Alwyn Bentley (February 9, 1865 – December 23, 1931), also known as Snowflake Bentley, was an American meteorologist and photographer, who was the first known person to take detailed photographs of snowflakes and record their features. [1]

  3. Snowflake - Wikipedia

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    Snowflake. A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved a sufficient size, and may have amalgamated with others, which falls through the Earth's atmosphere as snow. [1][2][3] Each flake nucleates around a tiny particle in supersaturated air masses by attracting supercooled cloud water droplets, which freeze and accrete in crystal form.

  4. Kenneth G. Libbrecht - Wikipedia

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    Libbrecht was a scientific consultant on snowflakes for the 2013 Film Frozen. [4] Four of Libbrecht's snowflake pictures were selected by the United States Postal Service as designs for stamps for the 2006 winter holiday season, with a total printing of approximately 3 billion stamps. [5]

  5. Leucojum vernum - Wikipedia

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    Description. Leucojum vernum is 12–35 cm (4.7–13.8 in) tall in flower. Its leaves, which appear at the same time as the flowers and continue to elongate during flowering, are 5–25 mm wide and 10–25 cm (3.9–9.8 in) long, generally reaching to below the level of the flowers. The flowering stem (scape) has a small central cavity and two ...

  6. Timeline of snowflake research - Wikipedia

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    1855 - James Glaisher publishes detailed sketches of snow crystals under a microscope. 1865 - Frances E. Chickering publishes Cloud Crystals - a Snow-Flake Album. [ 11 ][ 12 ] 1870 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld identifies " cryoconite holes." [ 13 ] 1872 - John Tyndall publishes The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers.

  7. Leucojum - Wikipedia

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    Polyanthemum Bubani. Leucojum is a small genus of bulbous plants native to Eurasia belonging to the amaryllis family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. [2][3][4] As currently circumscribed, the genus includes only two known species, [1] most former species having been moved into the genus Acis. Both genera are known as snowflakes.

  8. Snowflake Bentley (book) - Wikipedia

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    Dewey Decimal. 551.57/841/092 B 21. LC Class. QC858.B46 M37 1998. Snowflake Bentley is a children's picture book written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrated by Mary Azarian. Published in 1998, the book is about Wilson Bentley, the first known photographer of snowflakes. Azarian won the 1999 Caldecott Medal for her illustrations. [1]

  9. Snow - Wikipedia

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    A snowflake consists of roughly 10 19 water molecules which are added to its core at different rates and in different patterns depending on the changing temperature and humidity within the atmosphere that the snowflake falls through on its way to the ground. As a result, snowflakes differ from each other though they follow similar patterns. [17 ...

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