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What is "water ice"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
water ice
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Before external cooling with the use of water ice, temperature probes should be inserted to monitor the patient's temperature.
▪ Comets differ from asteroids in composition in that comets contain abundant water ice, and possibly other ices as well.
▪ For dessert, go for fresh fruit or water ice.
▪ I use them to make a Summer Pudding or a water ice.
▪ It returned exciting evidence that suggests massive deposits of water ice in shadowed crater bottoms near the lunar poles.
▪ Most of their mass is ordinary water ice, and the rest is carbon-bearing rocky dust.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Water ice

Water ice \Wa"ter ice`\ Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.

Wiktionary
water ice

n. 1 (context uncountable English) Ordinary frozen water, especially when a distinction needs to be made from other frozen substances 2 (context countable English) A dessert made from crushed ice that has been sweetened and flavoured

WordNet
water ice

  1. n. water frozen in the solid state; "Americans like ice in their drinks" [syn: ice]

  2. an ice containing no milk

Wikipedia
Water ice

Water ice could refer to:

  • Ice formed by water (as opposed to other substances)
  • Italian ice, fruit-flavoured desserts, sorbet
  • Ice made from flowing water (as opposed to ice from precipitation) in Ice climbing

Usage examples of "water ice".

You read about black ice and snow ice and water ice and large-grain ice and small-grain ice and cobblestone ice.

How the water ice layers and CO2 ice layers and soil layers relate to the climate shifts.

Dower had said the ocean of water ice had probably frozen out within a few years, after the Target had been ripped away from its parent sun by a chance stellar collision, and then the air rained out, and then snowed.