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ON p. 43 of the present volume of NATURE the following extract is given from a paper by Prof. Houston in the Journal of the Franklin Institute:— “On some of the hailstones, though not on the majority of them, well-marked crystals of clear transparent ice projected from their outer surfaces for distances ranging from to ¼ of an inch. These crystals, as well as I could observe from the evanescent nature of the material were hexagonal prisms with clearly cut terminal facets. They resembled the projecting crystals that form so common a lining in geodic masses, in which they have formed by gradua crysta11ization from the mother-liquor. They differed, however, of course, in being on the outer surface of the spherules.”
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SYMONS, G. Remarkable Hailstones. Nature 41, 134–135 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/041134a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/041134a0