Why Do All Snowflakes Have 6 Sides? // TRAIN BRAIN

Why Do All Snowflakes Have 6 Sides?

Why do all snowflakes have six sides?
It starts with a dust particle in a cloud…water vapor sticks to it and the molecules eventually freeze!
Every water molecule has a bent “V” shape making them lock together at fixed angles, building a hexagon!
But that’s just at the microscopic scale…
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