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• Perhaps this feeling persists in part because the individual snowflake’s particular form can vary from one flake to the next under the same environmental conditions, and is contingent on the particular steps this way or that made by clusters of H2O molecules as they deposited themselves on the growing structure. To the extent that snow can have thi...
• Though vastly bigger than single atoms or molecules, particles of dust still evoke the idea that we are assembled out of collections of separate pieces that are both diverse and numerous, with the potential to be taken apart and reassembled in ways more diverse and numerous still.