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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

This exists



Image taken from this USDA: BARC page.

Is it just me or does anyone else find this fascinating!? Reminds me of thoughts I had while watching 'Honey, I shrunk the kids!' years ago.

posted by Sj @ 4/26/2006 11:14:00 AM  

7 Comments:

  • At 26 April, 2006 15:38, Blogger Unknown said…

    I promise to be fascinated if you explain what that thing is...:)

     

  • At 26 April, 2006 21:03, Blogger kristin said…

    wow. when i first see it i'm like, ya, okay cool it's whatever and steve's cracked. then he tells me what this is and all i can say is wow.

     

  • At 27 April, 2006 18:38, Blogger Sj said…

    SJ - it's snow!

     

  • At 28 April, 2006 01:05, Blogger TheMalau said…

    What do you mean, snow? You mean like a real snow molecule?

     

  • At 28 April, 2006 08:22, Blogger Sj said…

    Yeah! They are called (this type) Rime or Graupels.

    "Under some atmospheric conditions, forming and descending snow crystals may encounter and pass through atmospheric supercooled cloud droplets. These droplets, which have a diameter of about 10 µm, can exist in the unfrozen state down to temperatures near -40° C. Contact between the snow crystal and the supercooled droplets results in freezing of the liquid droplets onto the surface of the crystals. This process of crystal growth is know as accretion. Crystals that exhibit frozen droplets on their surfaces are referred to as rimed. When this process continues so that the shape of the original snow crystal is no longer identifiable, the resulting crystal is referred to as graupel."

     

  • At 28 April, 2006 08:29, Blogger Sj said…

    Actually here, copy this link. This is one odd one too:

    http://emu.arsusda.gov/snowsite/Magono_and_Lee/imagespart2/23499S2.jpg

     

  • At 28 April, 2006 13:00, Blogger Unknown said…

    I am fascnated... thx.

    I've never seen snow :(

     

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