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No Flakes Like Snowflakes

  • March 17, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Are no two snowflakes really alike? Scientists say yes, because the way water molecules can arrange themselves in a snow crystal is practically infinite — one snow crystal may contain 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) water molecules!

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