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The Curious World of Ice and Snow: Part 3 of 3

February 8th, 2020
These 14 slides are the final (third) section of my Science Cafe talk. (Plus two slides added as an introduction.) As in the previous section (previous post), this section mostly has ice forms that come from the melt, but the ice shapes here are a… more »

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The Curious World of Ice and Snow: Part 2 of 3

February 8th, 2020
As I mention in Part 1, these are slides I gave for a Science Cafe discussion session in 2012. This section focuses on ice that forms directly from the melt, that is, the liquid phase. Contrast these cases with those in part 1 in which the ice grew from… more »

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