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Read the following excerpt from The City Without Us by Alan Weisman Almost every other compound in nature contracts when frozen but H2O water molecules do the opposite organizing themselves into elega?
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It compares the frozen crystals to delicately lacy snowflakes having a paradoxical strength.
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