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Ice 'flowers' bloom on frozen salt lake in N China
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Pointy, icy and utterly beautiful. Crystal "flowers" are seen blooming on the Yuncheng Salt Lake in Yuncheng City, north China's Shanxi Province thanks to the cold weather in the region.

It's a special phenomenon during which crystals of sodium chloride, or salt, form as a result of the crystallization of magnesium sulfate.

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