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Frost flowers on ice cream: When you start thinking about phenomena and something really annoying, all of a sudden, becomes really cool.

June 23, 2016

Frost flowers on ice cream. You must have seen them before: They sometimes occur when you’ve had some ice cream, put the left-overs back in the freezer, and take them out…

Frost flowers on the ice of the Schlei in Schleswig. By Mirjam S. Glessmer

Frost flowers – when water vapour freezes to ice without going through the liquid phase. Examples “at sea”

February 9, 2016

Frost flowers! I learned about those in the context of Arctic and Antarctic ice formation. I kinda assumed that ice flowers only formed in salt water, because I remember hearing about…

Frost flowers – when water vapour freezes to ice without going through the liquid phase. Examples on land

February 4, 2016

What happens when water vapour freezes to ice without going through the liquid phase? Frost flowers!!! That’s when trees suddenly look like this: Btw – the stem of that tree…

Strawberry ice cream crystals

August 12, 2015

My new favorite thing is to put strawberries through a blender and then freeze small portions of that to eat as ice cream later. It is super yummy plus you…

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Frost flowers on ice cream: When you start thinking about phenomena and something really annoying, all of a sudden, becomes really cool.

Frost flowers – when water vapour freezes to ice without going through the liquid phase. Examples “at sea”

Frost flowers – when water vapour freezes to ice without going through the liquid phase. Examples on land

Strawberry ice cream crystals

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