• DOI:10.1038/1981080B0
Corpus ID: 4186179

Symmetry of Snow Crystals

@article{Smalley1963SymmetryOS,
  title={Symmetry of Snow Crystals},
  author={I. Smalley},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1963},
  volume={198},
  pages={1080-1081}
}

• I. Smalley
• Published 1963
• Materials Science
• Nature

TOLANSKY1 has suggested a mechanism to explain the growth of complex symmetrical snow crystals. The crystal is considered as a vibrating system akin to a Chladni plate; the growth is concentrated at the nodes and the symmetrical nature of the vibration maintains the symmetrical external form of the crystal.