What’s wrong with this snowflake?
DEC 30, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023965
NPR : During the holiday season we see images of lots of geometrically incorrect snowflakes.Chemist Thomas Koop thinks ice crystals are masterpieces of natural beauty. Unfortunately, he says, “This beauty is sometimes corrupted."Koop, a professor at Bielefeld University in Germany, says the problem is that many of these images show ice crystals with five or eight sides. In other words, he says, they are scientific abominations.
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