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  2. Icicle - Wikipedia

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    The wall of this ice tube is about 0.1 mm (0.004 in) and the width 5 mm (0.2 in). As a result of this growth process, the interior of a growing icicle is liquid water. The growth of an icicle both in length and in width can be calculated and is a complicated function of air temperature, wind speed, and the water flux into the icicle. [ 3 ]

  3. Brinicle - Wikipedia

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    The brine will travel along the seafloor in a down-slope direction. A brinicle (brine icicle, also known as ice stalactite and briner cold) is a downward-growing hollow tube of ice enclosing a plume of descending brine that is formed beneath developing sea ice. As seawater freezes in the polar ocean, salt brine concentrates are expelled from ...

  4. Sickle - Wikipedia

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    A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting or reaping grain crops, or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock. Falx was a synonym, but was later used to mean any of a number of tools that had a curved blade that was ...

  5. Ice spike - Wikipedia

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    Ice candle form. Inverted pyramid form. An ice spike is an ice formation, often in the shape of an inverted icicle, that projects upwards from the surface of a body of frozen water. Ice spikes created by natural processes on the surface of small bodies of frozen water have been reported for many decades, although their occurrence is quite rare.

  6. Kamaitachi - Wikipedia

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    Kamaitachi (鎌鼬) is a Japanese yōkai from the oral tradition of the Kōshin'etsu region. It can also refer to the strange events that this creature causes. They appear riding on dust devils and cut people using their sickle -like front claws, delivering sharp, painless wounds. The name is a combination of the words kama (sickle), and itachi ...

  7. Ohalo II - Wikipedia

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    Ohalo II is the name given to the archaeological site located on the southwest shore of the Sea of Galilee in the Levant Jordan Rift Valley. [3] The site consists of the remains of six charcoal rings where brushwood dwellings had been during the Upper Paleolithic. [4][5] The huts are oval in shape and average between 9 and 16 feet long.

  8. Frankleben hoard - Wikipedia

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    Masses of Sickles (Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle). Has a close-up of marks on a sickle and a list of the marks. Depotfund von Frankleben (Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle). Photos of the Frankleben Hoard. A previously unknown rag axe from the hoard complex of Frankleben (Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle). In German, with ...

  9. Snowflake - Wikipedia

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    Snowflake. A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved a sufficient size, and may have amalgamated with others, which falls through the Earth's atmosphere as snow. [1][2][3] Each flake nucleates around a tiny particle in supersaturated air masses by attracting supercooled cloud water droplets, which freeze and accrete in crystal form.