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hoar crystal

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hoar crystal [′hȯr ‚krist·əl]
(hydrology)
An individual ice crystal in a deposit of hoarfrost; always grows by sublimation.


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5 Surface hoar crystals are large, loosely bound flakes.
The molecules rearrange themselves to form sugarlike granides, called depth hoar crystals, which are not cohesive--they don't stick together.
 
 
 
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