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.

Posted by max at 8:11 PM

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