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Sound Absorption of Snow

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THE impressive and all-pervading quietness following a fall of snow is a commonplace experience, though, so far as we are aware, no measurements of the sound absorption of snow have been published. The recent cold spell provided a suitable opportunity to make such measurements in the reverberation chamber of the National Physical Laboratory.

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KAYE, G., EVANS, E. Sound Absorption of Snow. Nature 143, 80 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143080a0

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