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Which has a lower freezing point, salt water or fresh water?
Classify newly formed snow crystals as fernlike stellar dendrites, columns, or needles
melting ice cubes Figure 7: Thin section photographs illustrating snow-to-ice transformation at the depths of (left) 1 metre,
Are all snowflakes actually unique?
How do fish survive under icy lakes in winter?
How did people keep food cold before refrigerators?
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solar eclipse, sun, moon, astronomy, space
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An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.
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Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)
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Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
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ice, solid substance produced by the freezing of water vapour or liquid water. At temperatures below 0 °C (32 °F), water vapour develops into frost at ground level and snowflakes (each of which consists of a single ice crystal) in clouds. Below the same temperature, liquid water forms a solid, as, for example, river ice, sea ice, hail, and ice produced commercially or in household refrigerators. Ice occurs on Earth’s continents and surface waters in a variety of forms. Most notable are the continental glaciers (ice sheets) that cover much of Antarctica and Greenland. Smaller masses of perennial ice called ...(100 of 1630 words)

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