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snowflakes
snow
Snow?
Hail?
snow
No, clouds are just water vapor and they sort of burst and they look white
By definition, snow consists of crystals of ice called "flakes." Very wet snow is actually sleet, for instance, because there are no crystals of ice; very big, dry snow is actually hail, etc.
Snow?
Frozen precipitation in the form of white or translucent hexagonal ice crystals that fall in soft, white flakes.
Frozen precipitation in the form of white or translucent hexagonal ice crystals that fall in soft, white flakes.
These "white flakes" are chips of ice formed from water condensing and freezing on the very cold surface of the cryogenically cooled fuel/oxidizer tank. The fuel is liquid hydrogen, at a temperature of about −253C. The oxidizer is liquid oxygen, at a temperature of about −183C. As water freezes at 0C any water vapor in the air around the tanks rapidly condenses and freezes to a layer of ice on the skin of the tank. At launch a combination of vibrations and air frictions causes this ice to breakup and flake off, producing the white flakes that you saw.
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Hail?
snow
"Precipitation" refers to "falling out". In a chemical reaction, precipitation refers to a process where liquid or dissolved chemicals react to form another compound which is insoluble, and solid "flakes" of the compound "fall out" of the solution and settle to the bottom. In meteorology, "precipitation" refers to water "falling out" of the clouds as rain or snow.
Snow globes are manufactured by putting a transparent sphere made of glass, in this sphere there is a model of a landscape. The globe is shaken to churn up the white particles. The globe is then placed back in its position and the flakes fall down slowly through the water.
The usual term is "sleet".
Depending on the temperature they could melt into rain or sleet. Or as we call it in Virginia, "sneet".
Depending on the temperature, water drops that fall when the temperature is below freezing can become sleet, ice, or snow.