{"id":1375,"date":"2010-12-30T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/30\/howto-grow-your-own-snowflakes\/"},"modified":"2010-12-30T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T01:32:00","slug":"howto-grow-your-own-snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/30\/howto-grow-your-own-snowflakes\/","title":{"rendered":"HOWTO grow your own snowflakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOWTO grow your own snowflakes<\/a>: “\"<\/p>\n

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Caltech physicist Ken Libbrecht wrote the book on snowflakes. Actually, several of them. The author of the Field Guide to Snwoflakes<\/a> and The Secret Life of a Snowflake<\/a> posted a HOWTO guide for growing your own snow crystals. (No, they probably won’t look like the ‘hollow column snowflake’ or ‘triangular crystal snowflake’ above that Libbrecht photographed with a custom snowflake photomicroscope. For more of those incredible natural flakes, see this gallery<\/a> at New Scientist.) From Libbrecht’s Web site:<\/p>\n

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The parts list for this experiment is as follows:<\/p>\n

>One used 20-oz plastic Coke bottle<\/p>\n

>Three large-diameter styrofoam cups (or something similar; see below)<\/p>\n

>A small kitchen sponge (1\/2 inch thick)<\/p>\n

>A short length of nylon fishing line (thinner is better; 1-pound test is good)<\/p>\n

>A strong sewing needle<\/p>\n

>Four straight pins<\/p>\n

>One paper clip<\/p>\n

>Some paper towels<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

‘Grow Your Own Snowflakes<\/a>‘ (via Science Friday<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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