Why are all snowflakes different?

Answer 1

Snow flakes form as water freezes in 3-dimensional space while being acted upon by energy leaking in from 4th-dimensional space (aka, Brownian Motion). Viewed in 3-dimensions, snowflakes appear to have different designs. Viewed in 4-dimensions, snowflakes all have the same design -- growth rate centered on square-root-of-time (in any one dimension); surface bounded by an ellipse (in any two dimensions); and surface bounded by a log-spiral (in three dimensions). After all, if snowfakes were strictly of different designs you would not know them as snowflakes when you saw them.

Answer 2

Water molecules are H2O, two hydrogen ions on each oxigen ion. The hydrogen ions are not in a straight line left and right from the oxigen ion, but they create more or less a V shape. This is even much more true for the electro-magnetic force field around these molecules. This causes them to prefer triangular and hexagonal crystal shapes when freezing.

Most snowflakes have a "condensation nucleus" or a dust particle to say it simpler in the center. Most dust particles have different shapes.

Larger ice crystals pull harder on surrounding water vapor to join them in their crystal structure than smaller crystals, clouds are not a homogenous mass of water vapour, there is constant air movement in the clouds, snowflakes collide and so on.

You can get an impression on how ions and molecules behave in a crystal by looking at the movies on theneocube.com . Search neo cube on YouTube for more. Remember that these magnets are symmetrical, ions and molecules rarely are.

Answer 3

because each snowflake contains a tiny city of people called the snow people depending on the size of the snowflake will tell the size of the city the number of its inhabitants in the city will give you how much the snowflake will weigh..jk depends how much ice its made of

Answer 4

The snowflake is a product of crystallization of freezing water. These crystals form in complex combinations according to random fluctuations in temperature and humidity.

Answer 5

their shape, each snowflake has a unique shape.

Answer 6

Snowflakes are formed by ice crystals and pieces of dust. Because ice doesn't freeze the same on two pieces of dust, each snowflake is different.

Answer 7

No two snow flakes are never alike because the raindrops form together and lie in their own mould in the cloud.