Description |
1 online resource (147 pages) |
Summary |
Take a deeper look at the unique, hidden beauty of winter with the world's foremost snowflake expert. From ten thousand feet above the Earth, a snowflake begins its fall. Its journey starts when ice forms around a nucleus of dust and is blown by the winds through clouds where the crystals blossom into tiny ice stars. Because it weighs next to nothing, a snow crystal may take hours to fall--finally landing where Caltech physicist Kenneth Libbrecht can use microphotography to record the tiny, intricate, frozen artistry of the snowflake. In The Snowflake: Winter's Frozen Artistry, Libbrecht teams |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Snowflakes -- Pictorial works
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Snow.
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Snow
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Snowflakes
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Genre/Form |
Pictorial works
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Wing, Rachel
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ISBN |
1627887334 |
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9781627887335 |
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