Neat! I travel for work a fair bit and saw a local craft sale in a mostly fly in northern community with this. The lady mentioned using super glue and then transferred into silver and gold jewelry. Success rate did not sound high for individual flakes but I guess the winter is long… try again.
Just yesterday I was watching a video from someone trying to make Formvar. It can make very thin layers that are transparent to electrons in an electron microscope. He needed to make 1,4-dioxane first, the solvent needed in its synthesis and apparently difficult to obtain from suppliers.
"Leave the slide outside or in your freezer for a week or two until the glue hardens."<p>A week or two? That's a huge margin there
> It is possible to preserve newly fallen snow crystals, creating one's own snow crystal fossils.<p>Nitpick, but fossils are specifically records of life. Footprints left in petrified mud can be fossils. But a snowflake isn't alive, so a preserved snowflake can never be a fossil.
What would be the correct word? Specimen?<p>An ichnofossil is the fossil of activity of a living thing.<p>But specimen seems like it might work as long as you’re not using wet / embalmed with it.<p>Vitrification maybe almost works, but doesn’t seem to really work for a snowflake.<p>Aquastasis ? (Joking)<p>Apologies. After reading this I’m now wracking my brain trying to figure out what would be the correct word to apply to creating a /mold/ model / sample of a snowflake.