Ice Crystal

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"). ❋ Peter Pesic (2011)

Extreme conditions such as ice-crystal abrasion and soil movement also directly damage tree tissues (e.g., conifer needles) and displace individuals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ring of ice-crystal light around the moon, bright enough to show colors. ❋ Jhetley (2005)

The ice-crystal layers of sweet and tart and definitely alcoholic stuff wasn't anything Pausert had encountered. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)

The trashing crescendoed -- furniture pried apart, pipes smashed, fluids spurting out, then freezing or going up in a ice-crystal geysers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Particles of water-ice make up these clouds, like ice-crystal cirrus louds on Earth. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Tim Stretton (2007)

The second layer beads up, but that’s not all: Additional water’s attraction to that first hydrophobic water monolayer is so weak that 50 or more ice-crystal layers can be piled atop the first until all the so-called non-wetting portions are covered–akin to “the coalescence of water drops on a waxed car in a torrential downpour,” said Bruce Kay, PNNL laboratory fellow and co-author with Kimmel and PNNL colleagues Nick Petrik and Zdenek Dohnálek. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Doctor Zhivago (with the filigreed ice-crystal textures of ❋ Unknown (2009)

Misty Crystal Ice helped me [questing] [today]! ❋ Sturm1021 (2009)

"[Dude], last night I [gave] her some Crystal Ice" "[Wack], [dude]" ❋ Clorox Water (2023)