Sentences with phrase «hexagonal crystal»

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Whereas Earth ice, like snowflakes, always form hexagonal crystals, space ice can form many different crystal shapes, such as this «palm tree» formation [right].

Not exact matches

It's essentially impossible that any two visible ice crystals would have exactly the same molecular structure, but small, simple, hexagonal prism crystals might look alike to the naked eye.

To make a spool - shaped flake, a crystal begins to form into a hexagonal pillar in a region that's about 20 degrees Fahrenheit before it drifts into another zone and «has a crystal midlife crisis,» Libbrecht says.

A little mineral crystal can act as a template, coaxing water molecules on its surface to organize into the hexagonal lattice of an ice crystal.

Over a span of days to months, the hexagonal geometry of a freshly fallen crystal might repeatedly deform, partially melt, refreeze, and fuse with nearby crystals, resulting in a minuscule ice carnation.

Now researchers have coaxed typically hexagonal 3 - D ice crystals to form the most cubic ice ever created in the lab.

Seen under a microscope, normal water ice — everything from frozen ponds, to snow, to the ice we make at home — is made of crystals with hexagonal symmetry, Wyslouzil explained.

The 4 - inch balls are restricted to a two - dimensional plane, so they tend to organize into efficient hexagonal grids, much like the atoms in crystals.

Snow crystals can grow into a wide variety of shapes, ranging from thin, plate - like flakes to slender hexagonal columns, and what shape they take depends on the temperature in which they grow.

The results showed that there are different possible configurations: Sometimes the particles are tightly packed in a simple hexagonal structure, which is well known from crystals.

The detectors, hockey - puck - size samples of germanium - and - silicon crystal housed in two - foot - long hexagonal instruments, are mostly hidden from view inside what Duong and the other physicists call the icebox.

The hexagonal symmetry is maintained, but the ice crystal may branch off in new directions.

In packed, two - dimensional crystalline systems, such as in photonic two - dimensional crystals, the particles are organized in hexagonal lattices.

Although many single snow crystals do not possess the intricate, branched shape, all have hexagonal symmetry.

This layered - hexagonal pattern is uniform throughout any individual snow crystal.

At some other temperatures, the prism faces grow slower and the crystals are columnar, but the symmetry — the presence of the one hexagonal axis — is the same.

Once the electrons were retracted, the crystal structure returned to its original hexagonal pattern, showing that the phase transition is reversible.

«Crystal, magnetic structure of multiferroic hexagonal manganite.»

It is also caused by those hexagonal ice crystals, which tend to settle in a horizontal orientation — hence the left - right arrangement.

If the high, partially obscuring clouds contain tiny hexagonal ice crystals, a halo will form around the sun or the moon.

Changes in temperature and humidity can switch the ice crystals from growing in narrow spikes to forming broader hexagonal «leaves», and back again.

Kim and colleagues first isolated a sample of pure graphene by protecting it between layers of hexagonal boron nitride, an insulating, transparent crystal also known as «white graphene» for its similar properties and atomic structure.

«Various hexagonal boron nitride single crystal morphology — triangle to hexagon — formulations have been mentioned in theoretical studies, but for the first time we have demonstrated and explained the process,» says postdoctoral associate Yijing Stehle, of ORNL» [We created] a more gentle, controllable way to release the reactant into the furnace and [figured] out how to take advantage of inner furnace conditions.

The glass - enclosed shower includes hexagonal polished marble mosaic tiles with bold veining in white, crystal, cream and gray that creates a stunning backdrop for this master bath.

Galactrix takes new approach by using a hexagonal grid and crystals.

Chen, G., P. Yang, G.W. Kattawar, and M.I. Mishchenko, 2006: Scattering phase functions of horizontally oriented hexagonal ice crystals.

Mishchenko, M.I., and A. Macke, 1999: How big should hexagonal ice crystals be to produce halos?