{"id":1178,"date":"2008-12-14T00:06:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T07:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/12\/snowflakes-are-freakin-crystally-cool\/"},"modified":"2008-12-14T00:06:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T07:06:11","slug":"snowflakes-are-freakin-crystally-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/14\/snowflakes-are-freakin-crystally-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowflakes Are Freakin&#8217; Crystally Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/gallery\/dn16170-snowflakes\/?DCMP=NLC-nletter&amp;nsref=dn16170\" target=\"_blank\">from New Scientist<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: #cccccc; width: 100%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; border-width: initial; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px\" class=\"nvbar floatclear\" id=\"galnav\">\n<p style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: #a7a7a7; float: left; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"floatleft lowlight\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/gallery\/dn16170-snowflakes\/12\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #34a3d1; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Prev<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/topic\/galleries\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #34a3d1; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/data\/galleries\/dn16170-snowflakes\/morphologydiagram.jpg\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/topic\/galleries\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #34a3d1; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">By growing snow crystals in the lab under controlled conditions, scientists have discovered that their shapes are determined largely by temperature and humidity. This picture summarises the crystal shapes formed under different conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/snowcrystals\/\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #00759a; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">See more snowflakes<\/a>\u00a0photographed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #00759a; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Libbrecht<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/gallery\/dn16170-snowflakes\/?DCMP=NLC-nletter&amp;nsref=dn16170\" target=\"_blank\">click to view full snowflake slideshow at New Scientist<\/a> ]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from New Scientist Prev \u00a0By growing snow crystals in the lab under controlled conditions, scientists have discovered that their shapes are determined largely by temperature and humidity. This picture summarises the crystal shapes formed under different conditions. See more snowflakes\u00a0photographed by\u00a0Kenneth Libbrecht. [ click to view full snowflake slideshow at New Scientist ]\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}