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High-Tech Snowflakes: A Biochemist’s Homegrown Snow

Snowflakes are stunning examples of natural beauty and testaments to the exacting laws of physics.

Thankfully, almost anyone can grow snowflakes with a soda bottle, some string, a block of dry ice and a little luck. But reproducing the same crystalline growth, time after time after time, is a challenge typically reserved for scientists with a laboratory full of expensive equipment.

Watch the video here, Time-Lapse Ice Crystal Growth.

All images copyright of Linden Gledhill

Notes: 363 6/20/12 — 3:52pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zi8M4xNn3bbH Filed under: #science  #ciencia  #snow  #nieve 
 
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