6 Sides or Bust: All snowflakes have 6 sides. Period. The - TopicsExpress



          

6 Sides or Bust: All snowflakes have 6 sides. Period. The reasoning behind this gets techy, but it’s cool: “The oxygen atom has a particularly strong attraction to the electron clouds of the two hydrogen atoms and pulls them closer. This leaves the two hydrogen ends more positively charged, and the center of the “V” more negatively charged. When other water molecules “brush up” against this growing snowflake, strong forces between the negatively charged and positively charged parts of different particles cause them to join together in a very specific three-dimensional pattern with a six-sided symmetry. Each water molecule that joins the snowflake reflects this pattern until eventually we can see its macroscopic six-sided shape.” – Learner.org
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:52:03 +0000

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