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Key facts

Material.name

Snow

Material.image

CargoNet Di 12 Euro 4000 Lønsdal - Bolna.jpg

Material.caption

Norwegian train plowing through drifted snow

Material.density

0.1–0.8 g/cm3

Material.tensile_strength

1.5–3.5 kPa

Material.compressive_strength

3–7 MPa

Material.melting_point

0 °C

Material.thermal_conductivity_note

For densities 0.1 to 0.5 g/cm3

Material.thermal_conductivity

0.05–0.7 W/(K·m)

Material.dielectric_constant_note

For dry snow density 0.1 to 0.9 g/cm3

Material.dielectric_constant

1–3.2

Material.footnotes

The physical properties of snow vary considerably from event to event, sample to sample, and over time.

Material.image_size

300px

via Wikipedia infobox

• Snow Amplification of Persistent Organic Pollutants at Coastal Antarctica.Environmental science & technology · 2019Casal P, Casas G, Vila-Costa M et al.DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b03006
• Visual Snow Syndrome and Its Relationship to Tinnitus.ReviewThe international tinnitus journal · 2017Renze MDOI: 10.5935/0946-5448.20170014
• Ecological responses to variation in seasonal snow cover.ReviewConservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2022Slatyer RA, Umbers KDL, Arnold PADOI: 10.1111/cobi.13727
• Visual Snow Syndrome: Proposed Criteria, Clinical Implications, and Pathophysiology.ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports · 2018Metzler AI, Robertson CEDOI: 10.1007/s11910-018-0854-2
• Snow and ice ecosystems: not so extreme.ReviewResearch in microbiology · 2015Maccario L, Sanguino L, Vogel TM et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2015.09.002
• Unraveling the optical shape of snow.Nature communications · 2023Robledano A, Picard G, Dumont M et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39671-3
• The genome of the Arctic snow alga Limnomonas spitsbergensis (Chlamydomonadales).G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Hulatt CJ, Suzuki H, Détain A et al.DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkae086
• Snow flies self-amputate freezing limbs to sustain behavior at sub-zero temperatures.Current biology : CB · 2023Golding D, Rupp KL, Sustar A et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.002

via PubMed

Wikidata facts

Subclass of

material

Has part

snowflake

Material used

air

Image

Düsseldorf Hofgarten 2009.jpg

Has use

winter sport

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