The details are microscopic, the crystals start that way...before they grow bigger around that tiny nucleus.

ode

At 03:24 PM 5/14/2012 +1000, you wrote:
I remember gazing at window crystals when I was a child in North London - are they really microscopic?

Jane
From: <mailto:[email protected]>Ode Coyote
   Gee, You don't have a freezer?
Spray some CS on Jack Frosts window pane next winter.
"water crystal" , my eye.
Just leave the snow off the flake and you'll get there.