Snow Crystals,9780486202877

Snow Crystals

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ISBN13: 9780486202877
ISBN10: 0486202879
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1962-06-01
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary

Over 2,000 photomicrographs of snowflakes, plus slides of frost, rime, glaze, dew, and hail. Introduction by meteorologist W. J. Humphreys discusses techniques of photographing snow crystals, science of crystallography, classification, and markings. "Page after page of patterns, one more beautiful than the next." Country Journal. 202 plates.

Table of Contents

PREFACE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PART I THE SNOW CRYSTAL
  HISTORY
  TAKING THE SNOW CRYSTAL'S PICTURE
  SOME FACTS OF OBSERVATION
  CLASSIFICATION
  CIRCUMSTANCES OF OCCURRENCE
  MARKINGS
  SHAPES OF CAVITIES
  PARASITIC CRYSTALS
  PICTURE CRYSTALS
  CRYSTALLOGRAPHY OF THE SNOW CRYSTAL
  PECULIAR CRYSTALS
  PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ICE CRYSTAL
"PART II THE SNOWFLAKE'S CLOSEST OF KIN, AND ITS COUSIN, THE DEWDROP"
  ICE FLOWERS
  WINDOWPANE FROST
  DEW AND FROST
  RIME
  GLAZE
  SLEET
  GRAUPEL

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