Bioprecipitation: How Bacteria Makes Snow

Published on January 4, 2018
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Raindrops and snowflakes generally start to form around something else in the air, like a speck of dust, but sometimes that something else is bacteria.

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http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-clouds-in-the-sky/128951584
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hagelkorn_mit_Anlagerungsschichten.jpg
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