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  2. Ice hockey - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. Team winter sport This article is about the contact team sport played on ice. For the overall family of sports involving sticks and goals, see Hockey. For the sport played on fields and using a hockeyball, see Field hockey. For other uses, see Ice hockey (disambiguation). This article ...

  3. Penalty (ice hockey) - Wikipedia

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    The record for the most penalty minutes in one season is held by Dave Schultz of the Philadelphia Flyers, with 472 in the 1974–75 NHL season. [36] The record for most penalty minutes in a career is held by Tiger Williams, who had 3,966 over 14 years. [37] With Zdeno Chara's retirement in 2022, no active player has more than 2,000 penalty minutes.

  4. Ice - Wikipedia

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    Since absorption is cumulative, the color effect intensifies with increasing thickness or if internal reflections cause the light to take a longer path through the ice. [13] Other colors can appear in the presence of light absorbing impurities, where the impurity is dictating the color rather than the ice itself.

  5. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    from charpoy चारपाई,چارپائی Teen payi (तीन पाय) in Hindi-Urdu, meaning "three legged" or "coffee table". [26] Thug from Thagi ठग,ٹھگ Thag in Hindi-Urdu, meaning "thief or con man". [27] Tickety-boo possibly from Hindi ठीक है, बाबू (ṭhīk hai, bābū), meaning "it's all right, sir". [28]

  6. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    The formal Hindi standard, from which much of the Persian, Arabic and English vocabulary has been replaced by neologisms compounding tatsam words, is called Śuddh Hindi (pure Hindi), and is viewed as a more prestigious dialect over other more colloquial forms of Hindi. Excessive use of tatsam words sometimes creates problems for native ...

  7. Phases of ice - Wikipedia

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    The formation of ice XIV from ice XII is more favoured at high pressure. [20] When medium-density amorphous ice is compressed, released and then heated, it releases a large amount of heat energy, unlike other water ices which return to their normal form after getting similar treatment. [21]

  8. Snow - Wikipedia

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    Many more complex growth patterns also form, which include side-planes, bullet-rosettes, and planar types, depending on the conditions and ice nuclei. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] If a crystal has started forming in a column growth regime at around −5 °C (23 °F) and then falls into the warmer plate-like regime, plate or dendritic crystals sprout at ...

  9. Hail - Wikipedia

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    An ice crystal with a diameter of >5 mm (0.20 in) is considered a hailstone. [4] Hailstones can grow to 15 cm (6 in) and weigh more than 0.5 kg (1.1 lb). [6] Unlike ice pellets, hailstones are often layered [7] and can be irregular and clumped together.