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	simply snow

grayed1

1-22-2008 11:08 PM

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1-23-2008 3:09 PM

carrerinyes

I once heard that a snowflake was a tiny thing, but when they stick together dude, you have an avalanche!

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        <FONT size="4" face="Arial" color="#0000ff">The simplest snowflakes</FONT></EM></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/primer/primer.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="100%"><FONT face="Arial">
        <IMG width="226" hspace="3" height="152" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/primer/simpleprisms1b.jpg" /><IMG width="154" hspace="6" height="143" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/primer/hexprism2.jpg" />   
        The most basic form of a snow crystal is a <B>hexagonal prism</B>, shown 
        in several examples at right. This structure occurs because certain 
        surfaces of the crystal, the <EM>facet surfaces</EM>, accumulate 
        material very
        slowly (see <A href="http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/faceting/faceting.htm">Crystal
        Faceting</A> for more details).  
<FONT color="#400040">    A</FONT> hexagonal prism includes two hexagonal
        "basal" faces and six rectangular "prism" faces, as shown in the
        figure.  Note that a hexagonal prism can be <I>plate-like</I> or
        <I>columnar</I>, depending on which facet surfaces grow most quickly.</FONT><P>
        <FONT face="Arial">   When snow crystals are very small, they 
        are mostly in the form of simple hexagonal prisms.  But as they 
        grow, branches sprout from the corners to make more complex shapes. 
        <A href="http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/dendrites/dendrite.htm">
        Snowflake Branching</A> describes how this happens.</FONT></P></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/primer/primer.htm"><FONT size="4" face="Arial" color="#0000ff">Snowflakes grow from water 
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