7 interesting facts about snow
Forming / / December 19, 2019
though a man lived on earth, no matter how many different miracles nor seen, the first snow will still cause admiration. Snow is always associated with something bright, clean and magical. It is a miracle of nature, which is associated with a number of interesting facts.
The most well-known researcher of snow is Wilson Alwyn Bentley (Wilson Alwyn Bentley). The American farmer much of his life dedicated to the invention and improvement of the method of photographing snowflakes. Bentley's heritage includes a large library of magazines, books and published articles, as well as more than 5000 images of snowflakes, for which he received his nickname "Snowflake» (Snowflake).
Scientists have not yet managed to find at least one pair of identical snowflakes. Each of them has a unique shape. This fact is even more impressive when you consider that in one cubic meter of snow is about 350 million snowflakes. Against this background, the fact should not surprise anyone saying physicist John Nelson (John Nelson) of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, that the different forms of snowflakes there are more than the atoms in the observable Universe.
The largest snowflake was recorded January 28, 1887 during a snowfall in Fort Keogh, Montana, USA. Its diameter was 15 inches (about 38 cm). The usual snowflakes are about 5 mm in diameter with a weight of 0.004 g
When walking through the snow we hear the typical creaking. It arises from the fact that the ice crystals that make up the snow, while squeezing and break emit peculiar crunch. Its sound is dependent on the ambient temperature. The lower it is, the stronger the crystals and louder sound.
We used to see white snow. But sometimes it happens and other colors. For example, pink or red. This phenomenon is observed in places where widespread algae chlamydomonas snow, snow cover which gives the shades of red, brown, yellow and even black.
80 percent of freshwater on our planet, it is contained in the form of ice and snow and occupies 12 percent of the earth's surface.
Many have heard the opinion that the indigenous northern peoples are the real experts in the snow. They claim that they have a few dozen snow names, characterizing its different states. In fact, in the Eskimo-Aleut languages for snow and ice is used about the same roots as in English. However, the very structure of the Eskimo-Aleut languages allows freer word formation, which could serve as a basis for the emergence of the myth.
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