Sentences with phrase «form as snowflakes»

«But on Pluto, with its thin atmosphere, I think any condensed particles would be very small, perhaps microns in size, so they would probably not form as snowflakes.

Not exact matches

It starts out as micro being individual snowflakes that are falling and gather stacking one on top of another forming a mass just waiting for a single dog bark or branch crack to set it off down the mountain in very macro fashion.

The size and shape of a snowflake depends mainly on temperature and the amount of water vapor available as they form.

Libbrecht is interested in what happens on a molecular level when ice crystals form, but he sees it as an old - fashioned scientific pursuit: «It's really like doing science 100 years ago,» he says, in that he's studying a mystery inherent in the mundane and familiar snowflakes that flutter from the sky each winter.

But it left an open question: Were airborne microbes forming ice in the clouds, or were they merely getting mopped up by snowflakes as they fell to Earth?

In reality, there are many different types of snowflakes (as in the clich that «no two snowflakes are alike»); this differentiation occurs because each snowflake is a separate crystal that is subject to the specific atmospheric conditions, notably temperature and humidity, under which it is formed.

When they practically stop moving, the molecules form crystals, like those you see creating frost on your windows or drifting from the sky as snowflakes.

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

As the inner regions of the protoplanetary disk cooled below 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, they reasoned, those elements condensed out of the hot vapor to form delicate mineral crystals, just as the intricate branches of a snowflake condense from water vapoAs the inner regions of the protoplanetary disk cooled below 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, they reasoned, those elements condensed out of the hot vapor to form delicate mineral crystals, just as the intricate branches of a snowflake condense from water vapoas the intricate branches of a snowflake condense from water vapor.

Snowflakes, for instance, form differently as they fall, depending on variable conditions such as temperature and humidity, hence the widely held belief that no two are alike.

At the extremely low surface temperatures on these objects, water ice takes a disordered, amorphous form instead of the regularly ordered crystals typical in warmer areas, such as snowflakes on Earth.

The newly revealed infant stars appear as pink and red specks toward the center and appear to have formed in regularly spaced intervals along linear structures in a configuration that resembles the spokes of a wheel or the pattern of a snowflake.

Entering the galleries, visitors are invited to explore connections between a kaleidoscope of seemingly disparate objects such as Bentley's snowflake photographs, Shaker spirit drawings, Tibetan mandalas, Kabbalistic diagrams, and a wall - hanging by Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian called First Family — Hexagon (2010) that uses six - sided forms.

Wilson's intricate works draws inspiration from forms and patterns already found in nature, such as diatoms, they fractal forms of snowflakes, and from cymatics, the visual patterns of sound and vibration.