> > From: AlunFoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/02/05 Tue AM 08:23:00 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Errata (was Re: PESO - Tarballs) > > Alas, or rather fortunately, it seems I drew the wrong conclusion > about those spheres. I contacted Kenneth Libbrecht and asked, bluntly, > for his opinion on them. He thinks they are just plain water droplets, > and it would be overly pretentious of me to overrule... :-) > > I'm still puzzled by their stickiness, though. Wonder if I get to see > more of them some time.
Pollution would reduce the freezing point, so they could be water droplets polluted with <whatever> that cannot freeze because the snow is not cold enough. However.... I can't see why water droplets of some sort of solution would not dissolve more of the snowflake. Seems to be more of a paradox than an erratum. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
