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  2. Cryo - Wikipedia

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    Cryo-is from the Ancient Greek κρύος (krúos, “ice, icy cold, chill, frost”). Uses of the prefix Cryo- include: Physics and geology.

  3. Crystal - Wikipedia

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    The word crystal derives from the Ancient Greek word κρύσταλλος (krustallos), meaning both "ice" and "rock crystal", [3] from κρύος (kruos), "icy cold, frost". [4] [5] Examples of large crystals include snowflakes, diamonds, and table salt.

  4. Pytheas - Wikipedia

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    He was the first known Greek scientific visitor to see and describe the Arctic, polar ice, and the Celtic and Germanic tribes. He is also the first person on record to describe the midnight sun . The theoretical existence of some Northern phenomena that he described, such as a frigid zone, and temperate zones where the nights are very short in ...

  5. Classical element - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Greek word for element, stoicheion (from stoicheo, "to line up") meant "smallest division (of a sun-dial), a syllable", as the composing unit of an alphabet it could denote a letter and the smallest unit from which a word is formed.

  6. Boreas (god) - Wikipedia

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    Boreas (/ ˌ b ɔː r i. ə s /, UK: / ˌ b ɒ r i. ə s /, UK: / ˌ b ɒ r i. æ s /, [1] Βορέας, Boréas; also Βορρᾶς, Borrhâs) [2] is the Greek god of the cold north wind, storms, and winter.

  7. Ice - Wikipedia

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    Ice that is found at sea may be in the form of drift ice floating in the water, fast ice fixed to a shoreline or anchor ice if attached to the seafloor. [45] Ice which calves (breaks off) from an ice shelf or a coastal glacier may become an iceberg. [46] The aftermath of calving events produces a loose mixture of snow and ice known as Ice ...

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  9. Chione (daughter of Boreas) - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Chione (/ k aɪ ˈ oʊ n iː /; [1] Ancient Greek: Χιόνη Khione from χιών chiōn, "snow") [2] was the daughter of Boreas, the god of the north wind, and Orithyia a daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens. Chione was the sister of Cleopatra (wife of Phineus, king of Thrace) and the Argonauts, Calaïs and Zetes. [3]