{"id":7342,"date":"2012-12-21T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=7342"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:18:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:18:06","slug":"the-chemistry-of-snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/12\/21\/the-chemistry-of-snowflakes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chemistry of Snowflakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Snowflakes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7343\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/12\/21\/the-chemistry-of-snowflakes\/snowflakes\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Snowflakes.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,388\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Heather&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1356088114&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Snowflakes\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;The Chemistry of Snowflakes by the American Chemical Society&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Snowflakes-300x194.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Snowflakes.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7343\" title=\"Snowflakes\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Snowflakes.jpg\" alt=\"Snowflakes\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Snowflakes.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Snowflakes-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every snowflake is different, except for the ones that aren&#8217;t. This short video from the American Chemical Society discusses the formation of snowflakes from the particle of dust that starts it all to the growth of the crystalline branches that make snowflakes so lovely.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VYrF3sFBY20?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More information about <a title=\"Water Bond\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wwnorton.com\/college\/chemistry\/gilbert2\/tutorials\/chapter_10\/water_h_bond\/\" target=\"_blank\">hexagonal bonding in water<\/a> molecules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every snowflake is different, except for the ones that aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[99,2854,2007],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Snowflakes.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}