Crystal Ice Face (IMAGE)

Tufts University

Crystal Ice Face

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The ability to select and study crystal ice faces, like this one, could help answer important questions, such as how vapor interacts with ice crystals to produce rain, which pollutants attach themselves to ice crystals, and why no two snowflakes are alike.

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Laboratory for Water and Surface Analysis, Tufts University.

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