Snowflakes: God's Design
by Owen Borville
January 20, 2021
Science, Chemistry, Geology, Physics
Snowflakes are unique. Every snowflake is different. No two snowflakes are identical in design, yet all have six sides, points, or arms, termed hexagonal shape.
Snowflakes are ice crystals or "snow crystals." Ice is frozen water and has a chemistry composition of two smaller hydrogen atoms bonded to one larger oxygen atom. While falling in the atmosphere, snowflakes form lattices of hexagonal rings.
Snowflakes form when extremely cold water droplets freeze onto pollen or dust particles in the sky, creating ice crystals. As the ice crystal falls to the ground, water vapor freezes onto the primary crystal, building new crystals, which are the six arms of the snowflake.
Snowflake Symmetry: Ice crystals of snowflakes are symmetrical because they reflect the internal order of the crystal's water molecules as they arrange themselves in predetermined spaces (crystallization) to form a six-sided snowflake. The molecules of the ice crystal arrange in the most efficient way, which is a product of design.
Temperature and Humidity Determines the Crystal Shape of snowflakes as long needle like crystals form at 23 degrees Fahrenheit while very flat plate like crystals form at 5 degrees F. The crystal shape can even change while forming if the temperature or humidity changes. The snowflake always has six sides or arms, however, and each side or arm is identical in shape. Design is apparent.
Each snowflake is unique because each snowflake experiences slightly different atmospheric conditions as it falls through the atmosphere and forms, therefore allowing for different shapes to form. These differing atmospheric conditions including temperature, humidity, and pressure allow for the uniqueness of each snowflake crystal shape, but each snowflake maintains six sides or arms.
In addition, while a snow crystal contains an atomic composition of two hydrogen atoms attached to one oxygen atom, the atoms can be isotopes of hydrogen or oxygen, (varying mass), which would cause different shapes to form.
Snowflake crystal types include many different shapes, including: plates, prisms, stellar crystals, columns, sheaths, needles, spatial dendrites, capped columns, triangular, radiating, arrowheads, and irregular forms, while there are variations of each of these types.
by Owen Borville
January 20, 2021
Science, Chemistry, Geology, Physics
Snowflakes are unique. Every snowflake is different. No two snowflakes are identical in design, yet all have six sides, points, or arms, termed hexagonal shape.
Snowflakes are ice crystals or "snow crystals." Ice is frozen water and has a chemistry composition of two smaller hydrogen atoms bonded to one larger oxygen atom. While falling in the atmosphere, snowflakes form lattices of hexagonal rings.
Snowflakes form when extremely cold water droplets freeze onto pollen or dust particles in the sky, creating ice crystals. As the ice crystal falls to the ground, water vapor freezes onto the primary crystal, building new crystals, which are the six arms of the snowflake.
Snowflake Symmetry: Ice crystals of snowflakes are symmetrical because they reflect the internal order of the crystal's water molecules as they arrange themselves in predetermined spaces (crystallization) to form a six-sided snowflake. The molecules of the ice crystal arrange in the most efficient way, which is a product of design.
Temperature and Humidity Determines the Crystal Shape of snowflakes as long needle like crystals form at 23 degrees Fahrenheit while very flat plate like crystals form at 5 degrees F. The crystal shape can even change while forming if the temperature or humidity changes. The snowflake always has six sides or arms, however, and each side or arm is identical in shape. Design is apparent.
Each snowflake is unique because each snowflake experiences slightly different atmospheric conditions as it falls through the atmosphere and forms, therefore allowing for different shapes to form. These differing atmospheric conditions including temperature, humidity, and pressure allow for the uniqueness of each snowflake crystal shape, but each snowflake maintains six sides or arms.
In addition, while a snow crystal contains an atomic composition of two hydrogen atoms attached to one oxygen atom, the atoms can be isotopes of hydrogen or oxygen, (varying mass), which would cause different shapes to form.
Snowflake crystal types include many different shapes, including: plates, prisms, stellar crystals, columns, sheaths, needles, spatial dendrites, capped columns, triangular, radiating, arrowheads, and irregular forms, while there are variations of each of these types.