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  		• diamond dust—Small ice crystals falling from an apparently cloudless sky, (often, but not always, at night).
    Crystals originate from air having a higher moisture content above a thermal inversion aloft, where mixing leads to nucleation and growth of crystals at temperatures near −40°C.