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No Two Alike

Snowflakes can be big clusters of snow crystals, or just one individual and unique crystal. No two snow crystals are exactly alike (which is rather surprising given the amount of snow that falls), but their forms usually fall into several basic types and categories.

TOP (Left to Right):
1. Stellar Dendrites: Six main branches and many sidebranches.
2. Irregular Crystals: Snowflakes have a hard life - many arrive in bad shape.
3. Sectored Plates: Ice ridges divide plate-like arms into sections.
4. Spatial Dendrites: Many individual ice crystals jumbled together.

BOTTOM (Left to Right):
5. Hollow Columns: Hexagonal hollow columns - like a wooden pencil.
6. Rimed Crystals: Cluttered with water droplets that freeze onto them.
7. Needles: Long, thin columnar crystals that look like needles.
8. Capped Columns: Start out as columns, but switch to plate-like growth.

When things falling out of the sky are this beautiful, no wonder snowflake watching is so much fun!

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