What is it?

• Tracy Fennell
  December 17th, 2006 at 3:00 pm

  A snowflake!

• rohtop
  December 17th, 2006 at 3:10 pm

  yup, snow, or ice crystal

• dodgyd55
  December 17th, 2006 at 3:11 pm

  an iron or steel mould?

• gail
  December 17th, 2006 at 3:38 pm

  Nice work, Tracy and rohtop. It’s a snow crystal from the USDA site here

• gail
  December 17th, 2006 at 3:39 pm

  Too bad we don’t have prizes for this sort of thing.

• Miss Cellania
  December 17th, 2006 at 3:50 pm

  What was last week’s thingy?

• John Sadowski
  December 17th, 2006 at 4:21 pm

  I declare it’s a snowflake!

• Tyler
  December 17th, 2006 at 4:51 pm

  It may look kinda like a snow crystal, but I’m gonna go with denture mold anyway.

• jay vaughan
  December 17th, 2006 at 4:58 pm

  I’d say its a crystal of sugar, not snow.

• Billy Red
  December 17th, 2006 at 5:24 pm

  snowflake (graupel - http://emu.arsusda.gov/snowsite/rimegraupel/rg.html )

• gail
  December 17th, 2006 at 6:08 pm

  No, really, it’s a snowflake. Tracy was right to begin with. I put up the link at my last comment. Same as Billy Red’s link.

• gail
  December 17th, 2006 at 6:10 pm

  Though it’s not in the graupel section, it’s here:
  http://emu.arsusda.gov/snowsite/color_images/default.html

• Tracy Fennell
  December 17th, 2006 at 7:39 pm

  Hooray!

• Ubik Liryc
  December 17th, 2006 at 9:22 pm

  It’s a device for indoor rock climbing.

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