No two snowflakes are alike
Last Updated on 14/01/2023
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Snowflakes may be ice crystals with the simple shape of hexagons like tiny natural sculptures, but the truth is that no two snowflakes are alike.
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No two snowflakes are alike
We spent a few days in a small village near nature. It was snowing continuously. The snow had covered white everything. Despite the severe cold and the difficulties due to the unusually extended frost, the snow brings joy almost to everyone.
Thus, I had the chance to take lots of photos of this beautiful weather. Peaceful winter landscapes, foggy mountains, snowy hills, even tiny gorgeous snowflakes. These microscopic frosty sculptures really piqued my curiosity. So, I searched and read a lot about them. Do they have so a unique shapes and designs that you can’t find two snowflakes alike?
Are snowflakes really all different?
A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved the sufficient size and may have amalgamated with others, then falls through the Earth’s atmosphere as snow. So, as the snowflake moves through different temperatures and humidity, it takes complex forms and aggregations of ice crystals. And, the structure may follow the same principles, but the results are always different.
From 1885 Wilson Alwyn Bentley spent his life photographing the beauty of thousand snowflakes with the microscope in standing macros in order to find two identical flakes. Eventually, in 1988 Nancy Knight found two identical snowflakes of the hollow column type.
But, I don’t know if this discovery can really change the general scientific belief about their unique pattern. It is almost impossible to form their complicated shape identically. As a result, snowflakes carry nature’s secret of uniqueness in creation, too. As the novelist Orhan Pamuk has written once, snowflakes are “…the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.”
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