We all know what snow is made out of, right.

A tiny wonder.

Crystallization

Here is Thomas Mann talking about symmetry in The Magic Mountain.

Crystal structure determination

And why?

Bottle broke in the ring.

Polycrystalline vessels.

Back at Cal Tech, he was... you were just the master of crystallography.

He's our lovechild.

Xray crystallography.

Here's what most of the sand in our world looks like.

And we can actually recreate the archetypal forms of nature.

Gnome Crystal Crystalline Structures Viewer

This is an inorganic tube.

So, for example, here on the left we can see a snowflake as it would appear in nature.

Edit and display crystalline structures

Well, crystalline structure's intact.

And so I wired up what's called a load cell.

It's the cirrus cloud, named after the Latin for a lock of hair.

I mean, the work that your company is doing...

For example, molecular structure.

Display crystal structures

So here's some inorganic life.

I've actually seen how people touch the wood, and I think there's a reason for it.

And this is what this adventure's really about.

Petrified polymorphs!

I mean, I do remember things.

His wife died leaving behind their two beloved children.

It's a process that not only happens in the biological and chemical world, but is a phenomenon that can be seen from magnets to snowflakes, robotics, social networks, the formations of cities and galaxies, to name just a few.

I mean, you got... Jesus, you got crystals in here 2 inches, 3 inches long.

When they put these guys in an fMRI machine, scanned their brains while they were memorizing numbers and people's faces and pictures of snowflakes, they found that the memory champions were lighting up different parts of the brain than everyone else.

She was late as a result of the heavy snow.

But it's still extremely dense. It's still extremely dense.

That cute baby is the fruit of their love.

And it turns out that different things crystallize out at different stages.

It must be sunny at night and snowy in August.

I'll just run them very quickly through.

This town is so short of water that the locals store it up in winter for use in summer.

Of course, they're not alive.

80 times more powerful than C4.

Star sapphires take a week to crystallize properly.

The moisture coming out of the south by midday will push on to the east.

How long?

Crystalline and Molecular Structure Visualisation Program