Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 1041
me of these forms as seen through a microscope. Very roughly afall of one foot of snow may be taken as equal to an inch of rain. It snows most in countries near the poles, or which are high above thesea-level. By the limit of perpetual snow—or, briefly snow-line—is meant thatheight above the… … Fis. 974. Sleet is also solidified water, and consists ot small icy needles pressedtogether in a confused manner. Its formation is ascribed to the suddencongelation of the minute globules of the clouds in an agitated atmo-sphere. When the ground is cooled below zero after severe frost and a thaw…
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