In article <3DC### [at] ibrasdk>, Ib Rasmussen <ib### [at] ibrasdk> 
wrote:

> Perhaps. According to my Oxford dictionary, snowflakes is the 
> collections of snow crystals, in which snow falls, i.e. several crystals 
> bunched together.

Well, when the snow is damp, the "flakes" do bunch together. The flakes 
aren't a random assortment of individual crystals, though, each flake is 
a crystal. A snowflake is a snow crystal in every definition I've seen 
until now.

Here's a good site I just found, lots of interesting stuff:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/
Hmm...one of the people who did stuff for that site was a Patricia 
Rasmussen. A relative? Anyway, they seem to use your definition...I 
don't know why they call a flake a crystal and a clump of flakes a flake.


> I was thinking more af being hit by large icy ninja stars :)

Well, they are only a couple millimeters across, so that isn't much of a 
problem. They do hurt when it's windy and cold, though.

You don't get snow where you are?

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