{"id":4302,"date":"2009-12-03T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2009-12-03T03:00:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T08:00:05","slug":"i-didnt-know-they-could-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4302","title":{"rendered":"I Didn&#039;t Know They Could Do That!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/thegreatbeyond\/2009\/12\/why_triangular_snowflakes_grow.html\">Why triangular snowflakes grow <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While most snowflakes are hexagonal, triangular forms have long been observed. When Libbrecht and Arnold grew snow crystals in the lab they found far more triangular forms than would be expected from mere random growth perturbations.<\/p>\n<p>Air moving past a falling crystal will increase its growth, they note. A tiny factor \u2013 perhaps a piece of dust on the crystal \u2013 that causes a small change in growth of a perfect hexagon will also tilt the crystal, changing the way air moves past the crystal and \u2013 in their model \u2013 increasing the way the crystal grows at certain points and inducing a more triangular appearance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/snowcrystals\/unusual\/unusual.htm\">Unusual Snow Crystals<\/a>.  Be sure to check out the photo galleries.<\/p>\n<p>Update:  and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/galleries\/2009\/12\/the-unbelievable-world-of-snowflakes.php\">The Unbelievable World of Snowflakes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why triangular snowflakes grow While most snowflakes are hexagonal, triangular forms have long been observed. When Libbrecht and Arnold grew snow crystals in the lab they found far more triangular forms than would be expected from mere random growth perturbations. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4302\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}