Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "water-ice".
He buttoned up his waistcoat and carefully reknotted his lemon water-ice silk tie.
The teams had landed at the South Pole, where traces of water-ice had been detected, and at the Caloris Basin, the huge equatorial crater where - it was hoped - that ancient impact might have brought iron-rich compounds to the surface.
The teams had landed at the South Pole, where traces of water-ice had been detected, and at the Caloris Basin, the huge equatorial crater where—it was hoped—that ancient impact might have brought iron-rich compounds to the surface.
It was her wedding dress, in the traditional shaded blue worn by Fomori royal brides— palest water-ice at the throat darkening through flaxflower to indigo at the hem—and now she was putting gold wire stitches into the deep sapphire of the flowing train.
And when they hit the churning water-ice beneath, they created new secondary plumes, new founts of destruction.
Conceivably, therefore, the surface of Titan could consist of methane oceans and water-ice continents covered by nitrogenous-hydrocarbon soil, above which methane rain precipitated from methane clouds formed below the aerosol blanket.
And on the surface, over a water-ice crust, lies that slush of complex organic compounds.
We conversed politely, about the weather and the latest French novels (she found The Wandering Jew affecting, as I recall, while I stood up for the Musketeers) ,10 and she ate a dainty water-ice and started to claw at my thigh under the table.