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Meanings of snow crystal in English

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Type of ice crystal.

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        Usage of snow crystal in English
        1
        Aerosols spray frozen breath as snow crystals are scrawled on shop windows.
        The Irish Times
        2
        It was just a flurry of snow crystals hitting the tent all night long.
        Climbing Magazine
        3
        On either side spread the blanket of soft snow crystals.
        The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke
        4
        He whirled away, in a sparkling veil of flung snow crystals, before the women appeared.
        The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
        5
        Plasma surged in, playing over the complex, delicate systems like a blowtorch over snow crystals.
        The Reality Dysfunction
        6
        Austrian alpine skier Marcel Hirscher added: Snow crystals get really sharp when temperatures go to -20C.
        BBC
        7
        Snow crystals falling all the time; a very light S. breeze at start soon dying away.
        Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
        8
        The snow crystals no longer sparkled so furiously.
        The Courage of Marge O'Doone
        9
        There was no moon, but the starlight was so brilliant that the snow crystals glistened in it.
        Hetty's Strange History
        10
        This code was locked within the ice amid the snow crystals that had fallen thousands of years before.
        Wired
        11
        Very fine snow crystals were beginning to flicker down, but I think neither of the ladies remarked it.
        The Gold of Chickaree
        12
        It was replete with snow crystals, and unusually dense, eight inches of snow producing one inch of water.
        The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
        13
        He discovered at the same moment that the sun was striking sparks of light from a thousand snow crystals.
        Man-Size
        14
        Straddling the peak, with a south wind beating snow crystals into their faces, the two men shouted in happiness.
        Climbing Magazine
        15
        The untempered sun of the Northland beat down on the cold snow crystals and reflected a million sparks of light.
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        16
        It's the same as lighting a fire and burning your ski base because the snow crystals get such sharp edges.
        BBC