Snowflake

Snowflake with a platelet crystal form, made in a cloud when water freezes at negative fifteen degrees Celsius. When crystallization occurs slowly, in calm air and in temperatures near the freezing point, snowflakes will exhibit hexagonal symmetry.

Filename

K11snowflake6501.jpg

Copyright

Ted Kinsman

Image Size

3900x2839 / 1.5MB

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