I was VERY tempted to give this one the check mark Dunno about y'all, but my tits point horizontally. Except when I'm lying down, in which case they point up. So this mnemonic would, at best, be useless; at worst, it would cause me to always get it wrong.
Perhaps the crucial point to some mnemonics is to accept them at face value because they seem right at the moment of acceptance, even though one might later realize that they were nonsense - but then they'd have already done their job.
Whatever the case, to go into the matter a bit more: I believe that gravity affects tits by exerting a downward force on them when they are pointing horizontally - the normal situation -, so that perhaps it could be said that they hang down after all - especially at middle age, if I am not misinformed. Please erase, this is going on too far. Show 3 more comments. Ah, that's a good one. The saying I was taught was similar.
It was something about pulling tights up, so I just remember that you pull tights up and that's where stalactites are. Stalactites hold tight to the ceiling, and Stalagmites might grow to meet them. Phobos Phobos. That's the one I've always used. You might trip over a stalagmite. Look to the shape of the capital letter: stalag M ite vs stalac T ite. Tootsie Rolls Tootsie Rolls 3 3 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. There are many other types of mineral formations found in caves.
And the list goes on. Some caves are fully submerged, underwater. Studying underwater caves, such as those in Bermuda , can give us clues about how climate and sea level have changed over time.
Some may take thousands of years to form, while others can grow quite rapidly. The two formations are also sometimes referred to collectively as dripstone.
Is that all there is to stalactites and stalagmites, or are there any more differences between the two formations? How is each one formed, for instance? Do they form independently from each other or at the same time?
To learn about speleothems, read about famous cave formations and find out some of the classic memory tricks to remember the difference between stalactites and stalagmites, see the next page. Sign up for our Newsletter!
Mobile Newsletter banner close. This forms a calcium bicarbonate solution. There, the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in water should exceed the partial pressure of carbon dioxide for the conventional growth of stalagmite. Moreover, we should not touch the edge of stalagmites because our skin oils can change the surface tension of the edge. It can affect the growth of the stalagmite. In addition to that, the dirt on our hand can permanently alter the color of the stalagmite.
Whereas, the stalagmites are formations that rise from the floor of caves. This is the main difference between stalactites and stalagmites.
More importantly, the formation of stalactite depends on the rate of dissolution of calcium carbonate and the rate of conversion of calcium bicarbonate into calcium carbonate on the edge of the stalactite.
But, in the stalagmite formation, apart from the rate of dissolution of calcium carbonate and the rate of conversion of calcium bicarbonate into calcium carbonate on the edge of the stalagmite, the formation also depends on the pH of the water and surface tension of the edge.
The following infographic presents the difference between stalactites and stalagmites as a side by side comparison. Stalactites and stalagmites are two different formations that we can observe inside caves.
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