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How do snowflakes form?
How do snowflakes form?
Learn how snowflakes, also called snow crystals, form.
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How do snowflakes form?
How do clouds float?
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Learn about the water cycle and how oceans act as the Earth's water reservoirs
Are all snowflakes actually unique?
Witness crop destruction by hail and examine a hailstone's interior under polarized light
Learn how the Andes Mountains block warm moist air, causing heavy rainfall that feeds the Amazon River
Learn how pollution from industrial emissions and car exhaust is trapped against mountains to cause smog
Witness snowflake crystals created in a laboratory environment
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