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Ice Age

(Encyclopedia) Ice Age: see Pleistocene epoch.

Ice Cube

(Encyclopedia) Ice Cube : see Rap music.

Ice Fjord

(Encyclopedia) Ice Fjord, Spitsbergen: see Isfjorden.

ice hockey

(Encyclopedia) ice hockey: see hockey, ice.

ice plant

(Encyclopedia) ice plant, low, fleshy plant (Cryophytum crystalinum) of warm, dry, barren regions. It is cultivated chiefly as a curiosity because of its leaves, densely coated with small, glistening…

ice skating

(Encyclopedia) ice skating, gliding along an ice surface on keellike runners known as ice skates. The earliest skates (c.9th cent.), made of bone, were found in Sweden. Wooden skates with iron…

dry ice

(Encyclopedia) dry ice: see carbon dioxide.

hockey, ice

(Encyclopedia) hockey, ice, team sport in which players use sticks to propel a hard, round disk into a net-backed goal. The NHL long regarded itself as the world's elite, but the overwhelming…

glacier

(Encyclopedia) glacier, moving mass of ice that survives year to year, formed by the compacting of snow into névé and then into granular ice and set in motion outward and downward by the force of…

Melville Bay

(Encyclopedia) Melville Bay, broad indentation of the western coast of Greenland, opening to the SW into Baffin Bay. The inland ice cap comes down to the coast, and glaciers discharge much ice into…