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by W. A. Bentley,W. J. Humphreys
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ISBN: 0486202879 Dover Publications Price: $19.95 |
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Over 2,000 photomicrographs of snowflakes, plus slides of frost, rime, glaze, dew, and hail. Introduction by meteorologist W. J. Humphreys discusses techniques of photographing snow crystals, science of crystallography, classification, and markings. "Page after page of patterns, one more beautiful than the next." — Country Journal. 202 plates.
Table of Contents for Snow Crystals
| PREFACE | |||||||
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | |||||||
| PART I THE SNOW CRYSTAL | |||||||
| HISTORY | |||||||
| TAKING THE SNOW CRYSTAL'S PICTURE | |||||||
| SOME FACTS OF OBSERVATION | |||||||
| CLASSIFICATION | |||||||
| CIRCUMSTANCES OF OCCURRENCE | |||||||
| MARKINGS | |||||||
| SHAPES OF CAVITIES | |||||||
| PARASITIC CRYSTALS | |||||||
| PICTURE CRYSTALS | |||||||
| CRYSTALLOGRAPHY OF THE SNOW CRYSTAL | |||||||
| PECULIAR CRYSTALS | |||||||
| PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ICE CRYSTAL | |||||||
| "PART II THE SNOWFLAKE'S CLOSEST OF KIN, AND ITS COUSIN, THE DEWDROP" | |||||||
| ICE FLOWERS | |||||||
| WINDOWPANE FROST | |||||||
| DEW AND FROST | |||||||
| RIME | |||||||
| GLAZE | |||||||
| SLEET | |||||||
| GRAUPEL |