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Filmmaker Vyacheslav Ivanov has produced a stunning microscopic time-lapse video that captures the formation of snowflakes.
Detailing how they form their hexagonal shapes, the mesmerizing video will remind you that beauty can be found in almost anything—even the smallest of things.
Robert Gonzalez of io9 described the process to help us understand the video. He said, “The ice crystal(s) in snowflakes owe their six-fold rotational symmetry to the hydrogen bonds in water molecules. As water freezes, water molecules bound to other water molecules crystallize into a hexagonal structure, where each point on the hexagon is an oxygen atom and each side of the hexagon is a hydrogen bonded to an oxygen. As freezing continues, more water molecules are added to this microscopic six-sided structure, causing it to grow in size into the six-sided macroscopic structure that we recognize as snowflakes.”
Click to watch the video to find out more:
[via Colossal and io9]
Filmmaker Vyacheslav Ivanov has produced a stunning microscopic time-lapse video that captures the formation of snowflakes.
Detailing how they form their hexagonal shapes, the mesmerizing video will remind you that beauty can be found in almost anything—even the smallest of things.
Robert Gonzalez of io9 described the process to help us understand the video. He said, “The ice crystal(s) in snowflakes owe their six-fold rotational symmetry to the hydrogen bonds in water molecules. As water freezes, water molecules bound to other water molecules crystallize into a hexagonal structure, where each point on the hexagon is an oxygen atom and each side of the hexagon is a hydrogen bonded to an oxygen. As freezing continues, more water molecules are added to this microscopic six-sided structure, causing it to grow in size into the six-sided macroscopic structure that we recognize as snowflakes.”
Click to watch the video to find out more:
[via Colossal and io9]