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INTERESTING effects of ice formation in an electric field and from a supercooled water fog have been observed by Schaefer1 and later confirmed by Marshall and Gunn2, who pointed out at the same time that electrical charging of a suitable support which is immersed in a supercooled cloud greatly accelerates growth of supercooled droplets (and later crystals) on the sustaining medium. Schaefer's report mentions, in fact, very rapid growth of whisker-like aggregates from the tips of which, at high electrical gradients, supercooled water appears to be projected outwards.
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ZAWIDZKI, T., PAPÉE, H. Pseudo-whiskers of Ice, grown from Clouds of Supercooled Water in an Electric Field. Nature 196, 568–569 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196568a0
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