[Sandwich]

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/e5fb1e4e0fca9010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

If it actually snowed here more often, I might give this a try. Perhaps some of our southern hemisphere peeps could let us know how well it works?

[watsisname]

That's pretty cool.
I'll have to remember this if we get a good winter this year.  ...blasted global warming!  It's gonna kill us all! 

[achtung]

I wanted to try that last year, but I just never got around to it.

[karajorma]

I wonder if the ice that forms inside the freezer is sufficiantly crystaline for this to work

[an0n]

Doubt it.

You need to the rotation and 'effective zero-G' for the flake to form properly.

[Sandwich]

Although why not see what ice that forms in the freezer does look like?

[karajorma]

You need to the rotation and 'effective zero-G' for the flake to form properly.

True but what if you spray a fine mist of cold water into the freezer? That might achieve the supercooling effect needed. Unfortunately you wouldn't get much time for the crystals for form and that tends to mean small ugly crystals.

[watsisname]

Actually that wouldn't make crystals.  Crystals form by accreting water vapor in the surrounding air, which would take too long to make in a freezer using spray.

In fact, if you sprayed a fine mist into a freezer, you'd only end up with a fine coating of ice on the surfaces.  Liquid droplets of water are notoriously difficult to freeze unless they come in contact with something.  (Note freezing rain).

But to answer Karajorma's first question, I don't see any reason why the superglue-technique wouldn't work with the crystals in a freezer.  Should be worth giving a try.

[karajorma]

Knew I should have paid more attention in Physical Chemisty lectures

I was always more of an organic or inorganic man

[Colonol Dekker]

The header subject link is actually very cool, I would never have tought of it.
Cheers