13 Things You Didn’t Know About Snow
Do you think you know everything about snow? Here are 13 facts about snow that you probably didn't know! Read More: 10 Things You May Not Know About ...
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We’re surrounded by it every winter, but how much do you really know about snow? It falls out of the sky, we shovel it off the sidewalk, we ski on it, sled on it, make snowballs with it - but do you ever stop to think about what makes snow? I do! Cuz it’s my job. Snow is made of a few basic ingredients: air, water and a tiny bit of dust, volcanic ash, mica or even particles from space that made it through that atmosphere. As the temperature drops, 180 billion molecules of water condense around the dust particles and freezes into an ice crystal; the colder the temperature the sharper their points will be.[a] These crystals eventually clump, forming a snowflake. What you see falling isn't a single crystal, but these massive clumps. Though, a single flake can grow quite large -- like, inches ...
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We’re surrounded by it every winter, but how much do you really know about snow? It falls out of the sky, we shovel it off the sidewalk, we ski on it, sled on it, make snowballs with it - but do you ever stop to think about what makes snow? I do! Cuz it’s my job. Snow is made of a few basic ingredients: air, water and a tiny bit of dust, volcanic ash, mica or even particles from space that made it through that atmosphere. As the temperature drops, 180 billion molecules of water condense around the dust particles and freezes into an ice crystal; the colder the temperature the sharper their points will be.[a] These crystals eventually clump, forming a snowflake. What you see falling isn't a single crystal, but these massive clumps. Though, a single flake can grow quite large -- like, inches ...
