how do snowflakes get their unique, and such beautiful shapes?
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Water is a polar molecule which – if crystalline structures are allowed to develop – arranges into shapes with dominant angles of 60 and 120 degrees. That’s what gives you the six fold symmetry.
Exactly how the crystal grows controls the final shape. This will be impacted by really quite minor changes in humidity and temperature as the growing crystal gets moved around inside a cloud.
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