How to enlarge the snowflake to see what it really looks like? Talk about what you can see in your daily life.

Snowflakes are formed by magnifying small ice crystals, and the molecules of ice are mostly hexagonal, so snowflakes are mostly hexagonal. The diversity of snowflake shapes is closely related to the water vapor conditions when it is formed.

Snowflakes have many shapes and are very beautiful. If you put them under a magnifying glass, you will find that every snowflake flower is an extremely beautiful pattern, and even many artists are amazed. But how are all kinds of snowflake shapes formed? Snowflakes are mostly hexagonal, because snowflakes belong to hexagonal system. There are two main shapes of small ice crystals in the "embryo" of snowflakes in the cloud. One is hexagonal, slender and called columnar crystal, but sometimes its two ends are pointed and look like needles, called acicular crystal. The other is hexagonal flake, just like a flake cut from a hexagonal pencil, called flake crystal.

If the supersaturation of the surrounding air is low, the ice crystals will grow slowly and evenly on all sides. When it increases and decreases, it still keeps its original appearance, which is called columnar, acicular and flaky snow crystals respectively.