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Capped Columns<br />
• 2 thin, plate-like crystals<br />
growing on ice column ends<br />
• Blow into cloud region<br />
where growth becomes<br />
plate-like<br />
• Grow into stubby columns<br />
• Geometrics – 6-fold<br />
symmetrical hexagonal<br />
plates (both capped ends)<br />
with rotation & reflection<br />
symmetries<br />
Rime on both ends of a<br />
columnar snow crystal.
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