ice crystal

IPA: ˈaɪskrˈɪstʌɫ

Examples of "ice-crystal" in Sentences

Ring of ice-crystal light around the moon, bright enough to show colors.
Particles of water-ice make up these clouds, like ice-crystal cirrus louds on Earth.
The ice-crystal layers of sweet and tart and definitely alcoholic stuff wasn't anything Pausert had encountered.
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.
The trashing crescendoed -- furniture pried apart, pipes smashed, fluids spurting out, then freezing or going up in a ice-crystal geysers.
Extreme conditions such as ice-crystal abrasion and soil movement also directly damage tree tissues (e.g., conifer needles) and displace individuals.
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").
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.
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.