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Ken Libbrecht's field guide to snowflakes / by Kenneth Libbrecht.

by Libbrecht, Kenneth George.

St Paul, Minn. : Voyageur Press., c2006.

Snowflakes -- Juvenile literature.

Snowflakes -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0613/2006016357.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0660/2006016357-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0660/2006016357-d.html

9780760326459 (printed laminated cover)

0760326452 (printed laminated cover)

112 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.

Introduction to snowflake watching: -- Part I: Understanding snowflakes -- Snowflake fundamentals -- Morphology diagram -- Snowflake symmetry -- No two alike? -- Crystal faceting -- Branching instability -- Faceting versus branching -- Knife-edge instability -- Ridges , ribs, and rims -- Sublimation -- Rime -- Snowflake classification -- Origin of snow -- Part II: Field guide -- Hieroglyphics in ice -- Simple prisms -- Stellar plates -- Sectored plates -- Stellar dendrites -- Fernlike stellar dendrites -- Hollow columns -- Needles -- Capped columns -- Double plates -- Hollow plates -- Split plates and split stars -- Scrolls and Chandeliers -- Bullet rosettes -- Radiating plates and dendrites -- Sheaths -- Cups -- Triangular crystals -- Crystal twins -- Twelve-branched snowflakes -- Irregualr snowflakes -- Hoarfrost -- Part III: Observing snowflakes -- Manification -- Snowflake photography -- Finding snowflakes -- Lighting -- Index.

Examines all the different kinds of snowflakes.

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