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thumb|upright=1.5|Macro photography of a natural snowflake A snowflake is a single ice crystal that is large enough to fall through the Earth's atmosphere as snow. Snow appears white in color despite being made of clear ice. This is because the many small crystal facets of the snowflakes scatter the sunlight between them.
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A snowflake is a single ice crystal that grows large enough to fall through the atmosphere as snow. Snowflakes appear white because their many small crystal surfaces scatter sunlight, even though the ice itself is clear.
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- snow
- Has part
- ice crystal
- Image
- Snowflake - Flickr - Alexey Kljatov.jpg
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- Unicode character
- ❅
- Commons category
- Snowflakes
- different from
- Koch snowflake
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