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  • Astronauts will place two sets of vials in the chamber with ice-crusted grains of silicon minerals and two different mixes of gases: one corresponding to the initial Miller-Urey experiment and the other taking into account current thinking about what was present in the solar nebula.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • Astronauts will place two sets of vials in the chamber with ice-crusted grains of silicon minerals and two different mixes of gases: one corresponding to the initial Miller-Urey experiment and the other taking into account current thinking about what was present in the solar nebula.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • But the sledge was still catching up, building speed faster than the Stormwalker on the ice-crusted snow.

    LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009

  • The light on the ice-crusted snow was particularly bluish-purple, and the snow seemed to go on for ages, a veritable tundra in the local park.

    A Walk in the Park kittenpie 2007

  • The light on the ice-crusted snow was particularly bluish-purple, and the snow seemed to go on for ages, a veritable tundra in the local park.

    Archive 2007-02-01 kittenpie 2007

  • But the sledge was still catching up, building speed faster than the Stormwalker on the ice-crusted snow.

    LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009

  • Astronomers believe that Europa is entirely covered by an ice-crusted ocean about 60 miles deep.

    Harpooning A Comet--And Other New Space Probes 2008

  • She helped him to remove some of his outer garments and offered him soft warm slippers in place of the ice-crusted boots she pulled from his feet.

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • I just got back from a little book-flogging business in Chicago, my hometown, and was glad to beat a hasty retreat from the ice-crusted tundra, since years in the temperate zones of the mid-Atlantic have eroded my native hardiness.

    Nina Burleigh: The Serpent in The Land of Lincoln 2008

  • These photos of ice-crusted benches, boats, cars and so on are striking -- and chilling.

    Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives 2005

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