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Hailstone

A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.

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Ice 76% connected

Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, britt…

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Water ice 76% connected

Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.

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Hail 70% connected

Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are calle…

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Ferromagnetism noun · 78% connection

phenomenon exhibited by materials like iron (nickel or cobalt) that become magnetized in a magnetic field and retain their magnetism w…

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Phase change noun · 78% connection

a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition

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Phase transition noun · 78% connection

a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition

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Physical change noun · 78% connection

a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition

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a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition

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Air hole unknown · 78% connection

A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.

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Antiparticle noun · 78% connection

a particle that has the same mass as another particle but has opposite values for its other properties; interaction of a particle and…

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Cloud noun · 78% connection

A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

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Coma noun · 78% connection

A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.

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Crop noun · 78% connection

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

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Cumu-cirro-stratus noun · 78% connection

Nimbus, or rain cloud. See Nimbus, and Cloud.

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Cumulostratus noun · 78% connection

A form of cloud. See Cloud.

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Downfall noun · 78% connection

A sudden fall; a body of things falling.

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Dust noun · 78% connection

Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too…

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Fog noun · 78% connection

A second growth of grass; aftergrass.

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Freezable adjective · 78% connection

Capable of being frozen.

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Frorn p. a. · 78% connection

Frozen.

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Frory adjective · 78% connection

Frozen; stiff with cold.

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Frost verb · 78% connection

The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

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Frozen p. p. · 78% connection

of Freeze

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Globule noun · 78% connection

A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.

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Grain v. & n. · 78% connection

See Groan.

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Grandinous adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of hail; abounding in hail.

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