Thursday, February 14, 2013

Ice and Galvie

As I was walking in to work I noticed some ice that had formed from runoff. It had a really interesting pattern:


It reminded me of Galvanized steel (image from Wiki), which is steel with a Zinc Carbonate

I'm guessing that the processes in which they are formed are pretty similar i.e. nucleation at various points and then growth until adjacent crystals obstruct further growth.

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