[Rockhounds] Winter's here...

[Axel Emmermann]

Julie,

Clear ice comes from slow freezing.
No bubbles means no air in the water. Boiling water before freezing it
should help.

Most dyes would either freeze out or make the ice opaque. I'd use stuff like
strong thee, juice from berries (black-, cran- or cherries); red cabbage.
If you add some fluoresceine (they dye that is use to color radiator-fluid
green) to the mix you could light the chapel up from the inside with a
simple UV-led.  

The weather is sunny and just below freezing point. No snow expected in
significant amounts, so you'll have to make the snow-choir for your chapel
yourself (LOL).

Success
Axel 

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> Namens Julie Siebel
> Verzonden: zaterdag 13 december 2008 1:38
> Aan: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
> Onderwerp: [Rockhounds] Winter's here...
> 
> Fortunately the backed off on 18 to 30 inches of snow, down to "up to 10
inches" by Saturday
> morning, but they also said no snow until after 10 tonight, and it started
snowing at 2pm! The
> storm coming in is supposed to turn blizzardy Saturday and Sunday and then
on Sunday the
> temperature is supposed to drop, and we'll have 3-4 nights of -6F to -7F.
(High's of 7-10
> during the day - yay! lol)
> 
> Last year around this time, someone sent a link to the list on ice
crystals, looking at 'em in
> situ and sort of growing them I think (but the growing of them might just
have been
> something I got from a sublink, since I obsessed on it for a minute.) I
can't find that link.
> Does someone have it? I'm in sort of the "have lemons, make lemonade"
state of mind. I
> figure I might as well have some crystal-growing fun with these awful
temps!
> 
> (And if anyone knows off hand the secret to making ice freeze clearly,
please let me know -
> I've tried several suggestions, but nothing seems to work, and this year,
darn it, I wanna
> build a snow chapel, with colored stained "glass" windows, for
Christmas...been talking about
> it for 5-10 years!)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Julie
> 
> 
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