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[In this article I have used the nomenclature with which I have endeavoured to standardize the English names of the various snow forms. Prof. U. Nakaya, who had not seen my work when preparing his papers, has now agreed to follow this, except that he proposes to continue to call a particle of falling snow a "snow crystal“in preference to my "snowflake". As all snow, whether falling or having lain on the ground for months, is crystalline, the word "snow crystal“is likely to lead to ambiguity. I admit that "snowflake“("simple“for a single crystal ; "compound“for an assemblage) is not perfect, but until a better word is devised it must, I fear, remain.—G. S.]
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“Snow Structure and Ski Fields”, p. 36 (Macmillan, 1936).
ibid., p. 40.
Nakaya has since written that this form is a modification of the hollow cup crystal.
Studien über die Nebelfrostablagerungen auf dem Partetjakko. “Naturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen des Sarekgebirges in Schwedisch-Lappland”, 2, Abt. i, Meteorologie und Geophysik, Lief. 1, 1–76. (Stockholm, 1923.)
According to Schmidt, W., Site. Ber. Wien, 118, 71 (1909).
“Snow Crystals”, by W. A. Bentley and W. J. Humphreys (McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York, 1931).
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SELIGMAN, G. Physical Investigations on Falling Snow. Nature 140, 345–348 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140345a0
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