20 Things You Didn't Know About... Snow

You might as well understand the stuff that could soon paralyze your car

By Susan Kruglinski
Dec 12, 2007 12:00 AMJul 19, 2023 3:56 PM

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1  Snow is a mineral, just like diamonds and salt.

2  Lies your teacher told you: Most snowflakes don’t look like the lacy decorations that kids cut from folded paper. Flakes are generally bunches of those perfectly symmetrical crystals stuck together.

3  No two alike? More lies! Many crystals are almost identical in their early stages of growth, and some of the fully formed ones are pretty darned similar.

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