Last night, we saw really nice wave phenomena on the Schlei in Schleswig. Do you see the waves being diffracted by the pier in the picture below? Waves are coming in from the right (see the three lines on the right in the picture below) and at the head of the pier they get bent around […]
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 how the ice needles that form wick up brine and that, due to their large surface (which you will remember noticing in the last post where […]
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 is painted white! That’s just to confuse you a little but… But let’s take a closer look. This is what the branches look like: Tiny […]
