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ice crystals

A type of precipitation composed of unbranched ice crystals in the form of needles, columns, or plates. These have a light downward motion and may fall from a cloudless sky.

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Influence on the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Initial Ice Crystals. Figure 6 shows that the variation of the IN concentration directly affects the spatiotemporal distribution of the initial ice crystals (Figures 6(a) and 6(b)).

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Takai, "Fractal analysis of ice crystals in frozen food," Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, vol.

Effect of Freezing on the Shelf Life of Salmon

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So, scientists at the University of Wisconsin investigated the extent that enzymatically hydrolyzed gelatin might inhibit ice crystal growth in an ice cream mix.

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Prior to this interest for glaciated icing conditions, some icing wind tunnels had the capability to produce ice crystals with median size of about one millimeter as defined in the CS requirements.

Improvement of an altitude test facility capability in glaciated icing conditions at DGA Aero-engine testing

AI has informed the Directorate General of Civil Aviation ( DGCA) that it has reworked the flight path procedure to avoid the dangerous cumulonimbus clouds, which pervade the Chinese airspace and cause ice crystals to accumulate on the engine when the plane is above 30,000 feet.

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22 the jetmaker issued a notice prohibiting the affected aircraft from flying at high attitude within 50 nautical miles of thunderstorms that may contain ice crystals. GE and Boeing are working on software modifications to the engine control system, which they will hope will eliminate the problems.

Boeing advises airlines about risk of engine icing on its 747-8 and 787-8 powered with GEnx engines

Elongated ice crystals align themselves with muscle fibres as the chicken freezes.

Frozen meat poses food-poison threat

Additional water (or the water present in the ingredients) helps ice crystals form, which give the finished delicacy its structure.

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Before vitrification embryologists used a controlled-cooling system to freeze oocytes (slow freezing) which requires 2-3 hours, and the longer freeze time commonly results in the formation of ice crystals within oocyte cells, which can significantly reduce survival rates of the eggs after warming to just 50 per cent.

Tawam Hospital celebrates 1st baby from frozen egg

This vapour then forms clouds which contain small droplets of water or ice crystals, depending on the height of the cloud or how low the temperature is.

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Food scientists also have discovered that foods treated with the antifreeze glycoproteins from ice fish become immunized against freezer burn, which is caused by ice crystals growing in food.