apollo2011 Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 Well, up here in CT were are into our second major snowstorm and I was just wondering why snow sticks to vertical objects such as windshields, windows, walls, etc. Could it be that the snow melts and frezes to the suface or something?
Dave Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 Probably for pretty much the same reasons water does, and they're in the other thread.
wolfson Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 Yes cohesive and adhesive forces look under sticky water
YT2095 Posted December 15, 2003 Posted December 15, 2003 things like glass etc... aren`t actualy smooth either on a micro scale, it`s full of ridges and pits like the surface of the moon. snowflakes are also made up of tiny and VERY SHARP crystaline structures, as sharp as 1 molecule wide in places, these will act like an array of little hooks, not quite like velcro, more like a Shuriken (ninja star) and will quite easily bury itself into one of the surface materials inperfections, this will then build up over time as they begin to get tangled in each other. eventualy when the total mass exceeds the adhesion to the surface, it slides off as one peice and starts over again
Sayonara Posted December 15, 2003 Posted December 15, 2003 You missed out the critical "flumpf" noise.
apollo2011 Posted December 15, 2003 Author Posted December 15, 2003 Yeah I saw the Sticky Water post. Rasori: What County?
Sayonara Posted December 15, 2003 Posted December 15, 2003 Someone from Connecticut, US , I would imagine
gene Posted December 15, 2003 Posted December 15, 2003 Oh chey. i thought it was some kind of science term.
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