Snowflake unlikely that any two snowflakes are alike due to the estimated 10 (10 quintillion) water molecules which make up a typical snowflake, which grow at different rates and in different patterns depending on the changing temperature and humidity within the atmosphere that the snowflake falls through on its way to the ground. Snowflakes that look identical, but may vary at the molecular level, have been grown under controlled conditions. Although snowflakes are never completely symmetrical, a non-aggregated snowflake often grows so as to exhibit an approximation of six-fold radial symmetry. The symmetry gets started due to the hexagonal crystalline structure
Snowflake (slang) to refer to those who opposed the abolition of slavery. The term referred to the color of snow, referring to valuing white people over black people. This usage was not believed to have extended beyond the state of Missouri in the 1800s. In the 1970s, according to "Green's Dictionary of Slang", snowflake has been used to describe "a white person or a black person who was perceived as acting too much like a white person". In December 2016, the term snowflake was referenced in the ABC sitcom "Last Man Standing", in an episode titled "Precious Snowflake" about microaggressions and politically