Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/797/en

The crystal-forming formative forces seize, in the cold of winter, the element of water as well. Water reaches its greatest density at +4 °C and begins — expanding again — to crystallize into ice below 0 °C. This process takes place at the surface of the earth and of bodies of water, and in the moisture of the air, forming snowflake crystals. In deep cold, individual crystals fall in forms of which no two are alike; and yet they all crystallize in beauty and purity according to the same principle — hexagonally, into the six-pointed star.