2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
No matter how much a person lives in the world, no matter how many different miracles he has seen, the first snow will still cause a feeling of admiration. Snow is always associated with something light, pure and magical. This is a real miracle of nature, with which many interesting facts are connected.
The most famous snow explorer is Wilson Alwyn Bentley. This American farmer devoted a significant part of his life to the invention and improvement of the method of photographing snowflakes. Bentley's legacy includes a large library of magazines, books and published articles, as well as over 5,000 photographs of snowflakes, for which he earned his nickname "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 there are approximately 350 million snowflakes in one cubic meter of snow. Against this background, no one should be surprised by the statement of physicist John Nelson at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto that there are more different forms of snowflakes than atoms in the observable universe.
The largest snowflake was recorded on January 28, 1887 during a snowfall in Fort Keough, Montana, USA. Its diameter was 15 inches (about 38 cm). Ordinary snowflakes are about 5 mm in diameter with a mass of 0.004 g.
When walking in the snow, we hear a characteristic creak. It occurs due to the fact that the ice crystals that make up the snow break when squeezed and emit a kind of crunch. Its sound depends on the ambient temperature. The lower it is, the stronger the crystals and the louder the sound.
We are used to seeing snow as white. But sometimes it comes in other colors. For example, pink or red. This phenomenon is observed in those places where the algae Chlamydomonas snow is widespread, giving the snow cover shades of red, brown, yellow and even black colors.
80 percent of the fresh water on our planet is contained precisely in the form of ice and snow and occupies 12 percent of the earth's surface.
Many people have heard the opinion that the indigenous people of the north are the real experts on snow. They say that they have several dozen names for snow, characterizing its different states. In fact, the Eskimo-Aleutian languages use about the same number of roots for snow and ice as in English. However, the very structure of the Eskimo-Aleutian languages allows for a freer word formation, which could serve as the basis for the appearance of this myth.
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