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As water cools, it releases heat that turns into frazil ice - a collection of loose, needle shaped ice particles that can cluster together in an ice pan.— James Randi Educational Foundation
If it accumulates enough frazil ice and the current is slow, over time, the pan can become a hanging dam - a dense, heavy piece of ice with high ridges and a low centre.— James Randi Educational Foundation
The City of Evanston issued an urgent news release Friday morning, informing residents that the city Water Treatment Facility had frazil ice crystals and submerged anchor ice on the intake pipes.— Chicago news, weather, traffic - CBS 2 - WBBM
Another request would help fund a $95,000 project to eliminate a flooding problem at Flat Creek caused by frazil ice, which forms in the bottom of the creek, Pardee said.
One of them, ready for use, was covered with the black earth called 'frazil', which is extracted from the site of old charcoal works; the other, in course of construction, showed the successive layers of logs ranged in circles inside, ready for the fire.— The French Immortals Series — Complete

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