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Science 21 June 1968:
Vol. 160. no. 3834, pp. 1345 - 1346
DOI: 10.1126/science.160.3834.1345
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Mechanism for Multiplication of Atmospheric Ice Crystals: Apparent Charge Distribution on Laboratory Crystals

F. Kirk Odencrantz 1, William S. McEwan 1, Pierre St. Amand 1, and William G. Finnegan 1

1 Michelson Laboratories, Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California 93555

Replication of ice crystals with vapor of methyl 2-cyanoacrylate has produced evidence of whiskers on them; an additional mechanism for the necessary multiplication of ice crystals in the atmosphere is suggested. This replication technique also confirms crystal clustering in the atmosphere and appears to confirm the distribution of electrical charge on ice crystals.


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