clear ice
Bubble-free frozen water
Clear ice is ice that forms slowly enough for air bubbles to escape, resulting in a dense, transparent block rather than the cloudy white ice from typical freezers.
Bartenders prize clear ice for cocktails because it melts more slowly and looks elegant: The old fashioned came with a single sphere of clear ice.
In aviation, clear ice refers to a dangerous glaze that forms on aircraft surfaces from freezing rain.
- winter stormSevere cold-season weather
- freezing rainPrecipitation forming ice on surfaces
- glazeThin lustrous coating
- supercoolingLiquid chilled below freezing
- transparentAllowing light through
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- ice and snowiceberg, glacier, hail, sleet, snowflake
- iceiceberg, floe, skating rink, rink, polar cap
- ice formshoarfrost, rime, snowflake, snow crystal, frost flower
- ice making
- ice sculptingchisel, detail work, melting, Sapporo
- lake icefrozen lake, frozen lakes, freeze-up, slush, icebound