Word: crystalize
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...Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, led the Caltech team that developed the satellite payload for the Army's Jupiter-C. As a teenager he became a celebrity in his home town of Havelock, N.Z. by bringing home from boarding school the town's first crystal set, entertained his friends with dance music from Australia. A wealthy uncle from Los Angeles took him off to California to study, enrolled him in 1929 at Caltech, where Pickering took his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, a doctorate in physics. During World War II he headed...
...crystal-chandeliered salon, the press was dead silent as the first model swirled in, wearing a sprig of Dior's favorite flower, lily of the valley, on her suit. But as the third model sashayed out, sudden applause for the new Dior line crashed through the cream-and-gilt rooms. It kept up for two more hours and 175 more models. Cries of "bravo, bravo!" broke out at the finale, a model marching by in a bridal gown. When Saint-Laurent himself appeared, mothered by his two weeping associates, Mme. Raymonde and Mme. Marguerite, the blushing youth was mobbed...
...purpose of the machine is to form "dendritic crystals" for the study of crystal formation in metals. Therefore they are formed quite differently than ordinary snow and seem to grow like "amphibious snowflakes," a scientist said...
...process, the machine first supercools the water to several degrees below freezing. To induce the formation of crystals the tank is then seeded by a tube which is cooled to an extremely low temperature. It takes about five minutes to make one crystal with the tanks regulated so there is always one crystal being formed...
...color of the snowflakes is due to two strips of polarizing material on either side of the tank. The colors are of all shades, depending on the thickness of the ice, the inclination of the light source to the crystal and the positions of the polarizing screens...