TechnoAlpin won the bid to supply the Beijing games with snowmaking equipment, a contract worth $22 million. This process has been around for decades: simulated snow was first used at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Snowmaking equipment tries to duplicate this process, artificially, by spraying atomized water into the air along with mechanically created nucleators - tiny ice crystals - that act as seeds for the manufactured snowflakes. They create a snow nucleus that then attracts more water molecules to form snowflakes. In scientific lingo, these specks are dubbed nucleators. Natural snow is formed high up in the clouds when water vapor molecules cling to tiny particles like pollen or dust. Here's a closer look at the Olympic snowmaking operation:
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