I found this quote on the web and I want to know if it is really true or false: "A snowflake is made up of a billion, billion molecules of water organized in a specific and stable arrangement. You will never ever find two identical snowflakes, even if you spend all your life trying. But if you melt a snowflake, and refreeze it under the same conditions, it will refreeze into exactly the same pattern, not a similar arrangement, but precisely the same one! It remembers its previous arrangement, and goes right back to it.”
2007-05-05 06:42:43 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
If you "refreeze it under the same conditions" as when it was formed, you will get the same snowflake. Re-creating those conditions is impossible. You have to control temperature and tne exact temperature changes. You have to control the exact wind conditions. You have to control the exact moisture conditions and where the water mocules are at the exact time.
The quote is correct except the last line: "It remembers its previous arrangement, and goes right back to it.” Water has no memory.
It's not possible to "refreeze it under the same conditions".
2007-05-05 06:48:12 · answer #1 · answered by John S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No way. The environmental characteristics influence a snowflakes general shape, but remember that water is a FLUID. There's no way to get all of those water molecules back into the exact same position they were in when it froze the first time.
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2007-05-05 06:48:52 · answer #2 · answered by Aaron W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because a melted snowflake is just regular old water. It is not going to change.
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2007-05-05 14:01:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there has been plenty talk as to *while* the soul enters the physique and not all agree. some say concept (maximum disagree with this) and a few as late as 3 months after delivery. maximum of people who agree that a soul *does* enter a physique agree that the soul itself chooses whether or to no longer enter whilst nonetheless interior the womb or to attend until eventually delivery or later. so a approaches as those snowflake toddlers, i'm questioning no soul is going to pick to head into the arctic circumstance! ;-)
2016-12-17 04:55:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, thats not true. A melted snowflake is just water, it has know way of "knowing" what shape it previously held.
2007-05-05 06:47:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. No. Otherwise your ice cube tray would make snowballs.
2007-05-05 06:46:18 · answer #6 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i dont think thats possible
2007-05-05 06:45:59 · answer #7 · answered by PI vs.vail 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋