Snow, ice and other wonders of water : a tribute to the hydrogen bond / Ivar Olovsson, University of Uppsala, Sweden

Author:: Olovsson, Ivar, 1928-
Published:: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2016]
Physical Description:: viii, 116 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF SNOW -- EARLY SNOW CRYSTAL OBSERVATIONS -- ARTIFICIAL SNOW CRYSTALS: "Snow crystals" with seven and eight arms -- Can you find two identical snow crystals? -- Von Koch's snowflake -- Ice patterns on windows -- Twins, snowflakes and hail -- Aging of snow -- Formation of rain -- Snow cannons -- SNOW AND ICE CRYSTALS IN NATURE: Macro photos by Alexey Kljatov, Andrei Osokin and Don Komarechka -- Thin film interference in ice crystals -- SNOW FOR PLEASURE AND ART: Snow festival in Sapporo, Japan -- Snow festival in Harbin, China -- Snow patterns by Simon Beck -- THE ICE SURFACE AND FORMATION OF ICE SPIKES: Ice spikes -- The ice surface -- Icebergs -- Effect of ice melting on the sea level -- Ice as aircraft carrier and Project Habakkuk -- STRUCTURE AND PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF WATER AND ICE: The water molecule -- The structure of ordinary, hexagonal ice, Ih -- The structure of other forms of ice -- PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF WATER AND ICE; SIGNIFICANCE IN NATURE: Surface properties of ice and snow -- The structure of liquid water -- Models for the water structure -- Polywater -- THE WATER MOLECULE IS UNIQUE.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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