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Snowflakes fall with a fascinating variety of shapes and patterns -- including stellar dendrites, hollow columns, triangular crystals, and many more. Clickhereto see the common crystals as well as some exotic varieties.
I grow my own snow crystals in the snowflake lab, where I can create my own designs, including some you will not find in nature. Clickhereto see how this is done.
Click on this image to watch snow crystals as they grow in snowflake lab. It takes about 15-60 minutes to grow a large snowflake, and this process is compressed to around 10-30 seconds using time-lapse photography
How are snow crystals made, and why do they have the shapes they do? Why are they all so different, and how come the six branches grow so similarly? Clickhereto learn how all this works.
Ice and water are all around us, and they are fascinating to learn about. You too can grow your own snowflakes, make some snowflake fossils, or investigte the mysterious ice spikes. Clickhereto find out how..