Philip Ball, "The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Yen and Wynton's Crystal Growth
After writing the book, have you changed any ways that you or do something in everyday life, maybe the way you brew your coffee? Well, yes, absolutely. I mean, snowflakes are an example of this, these structures called fractals,. which basically what that means is that they are structures that have certain elements that just repeat again and again at smaller scales. But you see fractal structures of various sorts also in some crystallization processes where you get these very these branching sort of patterns.
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