The weirdness of water, Part 1 of 2
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The Innuits Have More Than 30 Words for Snow?
At the moment there are 15 known crystalline forms of ice. The different names are basically just listing the word ice with numbers after them. When you change the pressure, when you squeeze those water molecules together, you do get different types of ice. But water does the hey hannah, you know how they say that the innuits have more than 30 words for snow? Let me guess, not true at all. They do have multiple words for snow for various language groups around the arctic circle but it's actually not that many more than we have in english. You know who does have more than 15 words for ice? Scientists. I lose count, actually.
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