ice-crystal

Only at the highest levels—up to 45,000 feet—do we find the ice-crystal clouds cirrus ("like white locks of hair"), cirrocumulus ("like grains of rice") and cirrostratus ("a light, milky whitening of the blue").

Cirrus Concerns Peter Pesic 2011

Extreme conditions such as ice-crystal abrasion and soil movement also directly damage tree tissues (e.g., conifer needles) and displace individuals.

Effects of climate change on landscape and regional processes and feedbacks to the climate system in the Arctic 2009

Besides, he says high fibrinogen in winter is evolution's way of protectiong against ice-crystal damage, but he fails to note that clotting is impaired by hypothermia -- clotting factor levels are not correleted with activity.

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

Besides, he says high fibrinogen in winter is evolution's way of protectiong against ice-crystal damage, but he fails to note that clotting is impaired by hypothermia -- clotting factor levels are not correleted with activity.

Survival of the Sickest 2007

Ring of ice-crystal light around the moon, bright enough to show colors.

Gray jhetley 2005

The ice-crystal layers of sweet and tart and definitely alcoholic stuff wasn't anything Pausert had encountered.

The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

The trashing crescendoed -- furniture pried apart, pipes smashed, fluids spurting out, then freezing or going up in a ice-crystal geysers.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

Since the 1940s, scientists have known that seeding clouds with lead can hasten ice-crystal formation and precipitation, said atmospheric chemist Dan Cziczo of the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

National Geographic News 2009

Particles of water-ice make up these clouds, like ice-crystal cirrus louds on Earth.

TrekMovie.com 2008

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie has the chilly perfection of an ice-crystal: not to everyone’s taste, but of its type an unequalled glory.

Archive 2007-10-01 Tim Stretton 2007