As
the growing snow crystal is tossed by the air currents within a cloud, it encounters areas with different atmospheric conditions.
Not exact matches
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grow a giant
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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.
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snow crystal can be 50 times as wide as it is thick, so even though
crystals can be lab
grown to more than two inches across, they're generally far thinner than a piece of paper.
Glaciers are created when decades upon decades of
snow compact themselves into hard ice and as the ice
crystals grow, they push out the air, creating a denser and thicker ice.
Once an ice
crystal has formed, it absorbs and freezes additional water vapor from the surrounding air,
growing into a
snow crystal or
snow pellet, which then falls to Earth.
Cook explains that the darkening is the result of a melt - induced feedback that polar scientists have long documented: Upon melting and refreezing, ice
crystals lose their spiky shape and
grow larger and rounder, which can reduce the reflectivity of the
snow by as much as 10 %.