#WaveWatchingWednesday
Haven’t posted a #WaveWatchingWednesday in a while — but I am very regularly posting over on my Instagram @fascinocean_kiel. Check it out if you fancy a more regular supply of…
Tag: ice crystals
Insta takeover on snowflake formation
Back in December, I did a takeover of the Instagram account of WissKommSquad, a community of german science communicators. I translated it over new years, but somehow never published it.…
Frost flowers on ice cream: When you start thinking about phenomena and something really annoying, all of a sudden, becomes really cool.
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 – when water vapour freezes to ice without going through the liquid phase. Examples “at sea”
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
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…