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2. Ice pellets - Wikipedia

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   Ice pellets (Canadian English [1]) or sleet (American English) is a form of precipitation consisting of small, hard, translucent balls of ice. Ice pellets are different from graupel ("soft hail"), which is made of frosty white opaque rime , and from a mixture of rain and snow , which is a slushy liquid or semisolid.

3. Frost weathering - Wikipedia

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   If there are small pores, a very quick freezing of water in parts of the rock may expel water, and if the water is expelled faster than it can migrate, pressure may rise, fracturing the rock. Since research in physical weathering begun around 1900, volumetric expansion was, until the 1980s, held to be the predominant process behind frost ...

4. Frost damage (construction) - Wikipedia

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   Visible frost damage develops after an accumulation of micro-cracks as a result of several freeze-thaw cycles. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Frost damage can be prevented by the use of frost-proof materials, i.e. , a material which has sufficient closed pores, by which the volume increase caused by the freezing of water in capillary pores can be absorbed by the ...

5. Ice - Wikipedia

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   Ice pellets typically form alongside freezing rain, when a wet warm front ends up between colder and drier atmospheric layers. There, raindrops would both freeze and shrink in size due to evaporative cooling. [87] So-called snow pellets, or graupel, form when multiple water droplets freeze onto snowflakes until a soft ball-like shape is formed ...

6. Water softening - Wikipedia

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   Water softening is the removal of calcium, magnesium, and certain other metal cations in hard water. The resulting soft water requires less soap for the same cleaning effort, as soap is not wasted bonding with calcium ions. Soft water also extends the lifetime of plumbing by reducing or eliminating scale build-up in pipes

7. Here Are the Best Ways to Protect Your Plants from Frost - AOL

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   "The water vapor in the air comes into contact with a cold surfaces and condenses and then freezes," says Nancy Awot-Traut, a horticulture expert at Burpee Gardening. "Usually this occurs on clear ...