Glacier

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Term: Glacier
Definition: Frozen precipitation in the form of white or translucent ice crystals in complex branched hexagonal form. It most often falls from stratiform clouds, but can fall as snow showers from cumuliform ones. At temperatures than -5
Created 2022.03.08
Last Modified 2023.03.27
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