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ice crystal

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Noun1.ice crystalice crystal - small crystals of ice                
diamond dust, frost mist, frost snow, ice needle, poudrin, snow mist
downfall, precipitation - the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
H2O, water - binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
crystal - a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure


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Scientists have found that clouds consisting of a mixture of tiny ice crystals and larger pellets of ice make the most lightning.
Blustery bolts by Klein, Andrew / Science World
ON A PEDESTAL--This three-dimensional, simulated ice crystal resembles a common, simple type of natural snowflake: a hexagonal column whose faces are indented because they grow more slowly than the column's edges.
What a flake: computers get the hang of ice-crystal growth by Weiss, Peter / Science News
Indeed, previous research has shown that the type of ice crystal initially formed, the subsequent modification of the ice crystal as it descends through the cloud and sub-cloud layers, and various surface processes combine to determine SLR.
The USE of climatology to construct a physically based method for ... by Moore, James T. / National Weather Digest
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