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Snowflake : Winter's Frozen Artistry.

Take a deeper look at the unique, hidden beauty of winter with the world's foremost snowflake expert. From ten thousand feet above the Earth, a snowflake begins its fall. Its journey starts when ice forms around a nucleus of dust and is blown by the winds through clouds where the crystals bloss...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Libbrecht, Kenneth
Otros Autores: Wing, Rachel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stillwater : Quayside Publishing Group, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Take a deeper look at the unique, hidden beauty of winter with the world's foremost snowflake expert. From ten thousand feet above the Earth, a snowflake begins its fall. Its journey starts when ice forms around a nucleus of dust and is blown by the winds through clouds where the crystals blossom into tiny ice stars. Because it weighs next to nothing, a snow crystal may take hours to fall--finally landing where Caltech physicist Kenneth Libbrecht can use microphotography to record the tiny, intricate, frozen artistry of the snowflake. In The Snowflake: Winter's Frozen Artistry, Libbrecht teams.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (147 pages)
ISBN:1627887334
9781627887335