Magono & Lee Classification of Snow Crystals
Magono & Lee Classification of Snow Crystals, otherwise known as Snowflake's mother, father, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, great grandparents, grat, great, great...well you get the picture, there are too many relatives to mention by name.
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I1 Ice particle
CP1a Column with plates
or Capped Columns Capped Coluumns are basically crystals which start out as columns, but suddenly switch to plate-like growth. This phenomon may happen if a crystal gets blown into a region with a different temperature.
R1b Rimed columnar crystal
I2 Rimed particle
CP1b Column with dendrites
R1c Rimed plate or sector
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