Snowflake
Movies
... Watching snowflakes grow ... |
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If you can make snowflakes in the lab,
then you can make time-lapse movies of them growing. It turns out to be fairly
difficult (much harder than still pictures), so for now I only have a few. But I'm
building some improved hardware, so check back later for more movies.
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Click the image (0.8 MByte) to see a time-lapse movie of a growing snow
crystal that was cycled back and forth between roughly -15 C and -12 C. Sectored
plates grew slowly at -12 C, while at -15 C dendritic arms spouted quickly from the tips
of the plates. The total elapsed time for the movie is 70 minutes. |
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Click the first
image at right to see another movie (0.8 Mbyte). Or, if you have a fast connection,
click on the last image at right for a larger version of the same movie (3 Mbyte).
The larger movie may take a while to download. |
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One more
movie - a view somewhat from the side of a growing stellar dendrite
(taken by Vicky Tanusheva in my lab). |