Ever wondered what the Forbidden City or the Great Wall would look like if they were made of ice?
With 102 holes drilled so far, hundreds of measurements have been made of ice thickness and snow cover over the 243km covered to date.
One-hundred-and-two holes have been dug so far and 1, 100 measurements have been made of ice thickness, snow density and other features - data deemed vital by scientists evaluating the future of the Arctic sea-ice.
The collector basically looks like a tennis racket filled with ice cubes, so this is kind of like a big ice-cube tray, and each ice cube is not made out of ice, but it's made out of this aerogel.
So it's like the Corps of Engineers removed a coastal barrier that used to be made out of ice and the coast is no longer protected.
We have a pretty good idea that they're made of dirty ice, but beyond that, we don't really know the details of what they're made of.
It is neither rocky nor gaseous, instead being made largely of ice.
Kyocera kitted us out with toques, touch-sensitive gloves and giant black faux-fur coats -- well, Brad chose white -- and led us all into a bar made entirely of ice to launch its new handsets here at CTIA. Kyocera, playing off the tough-guy thing, had the Hydro Xtrm and Edge laid out on slabs of ice in a pretty frosty environment for us to handle with our gloved hands.
They started off with more than 1, 000 virtual Moon-sized objects made of rock and ice and simulated about 200 million years of planetary evolution.
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At Sweden's Icehotel, designers from Pinpin Studio carved a frosty suite with glowing UFOs made entirely out of ice.
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Comets are made up of water, ice, dust and other elements and minerals, all loosely packed together, Battams said.
Before turning on the TV I made myself a bowl of ice cream.
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These warnings did not prevent, that very year, the largest single outbreak of illness so far traced to eggs in America, when a nationally distributed brand of ice cream made about 224, 000 people ill in 48 states.
Occasionally, comics-industry types assert that comics are good at telling stories in lots of different genres, which misses the big picture in the same way as a dairy-industry type insisting that milk can be made into lots of different flavors of ice cream.
This triggered an early spring melt, which made the ice vulnerable to the impact of high summer temperatures.
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We happily raced to catch the rivulets of locally made chocolate chip cookie dough and mint Oreo ice cream melting down our cones and dripping onto our hands.
About the same size as fine particles of cigarette smoke, the grains are made of silicate minerals and carbon-based materials coated with ice - principally water ice and frozen carbon monoxide.
The ice cream machine made its way to the front of the cupboard.
Anyone who sends a tweet to the machine while standing in front of it will receive a free sample of BOS Ice Tea, a popular organic beverage made in South Africa from Rooibos, an indigenous plant which locals have used to make traditional tea for hundreds of years.
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One tricky question is whether the overall accelerated melting of the ice sheets can be linked to man-made climate change.
Much has already been made of the fact that Upton is a departure from the stick thin ice beauties that have lately dominated the catwalks.
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He made his initial decision at the age of seven, while waiting in line for ice cream in Wilmington, Delaware, where the family then lived.
Watch for bits of flying ice as the bartender chips smaller pieces from their custom-made ice blocks into a cocktail shaker.
An E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that began at a fair in New York state in late August has laid low more than 1, 000 people, most of them because they drank contaminated water that was mixed with drinks or made into ice.
Atlanta -- paced by quarterback Matt Ryan, known as "Matty Ice" for his strong play in the waning minutes of games -- made a run.
Once the ice is fully afloat its effective contribution to the total mass of the ocean has been made.
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Many now use elegant long spoons made only in Japan for mixing drinks, and several have even adopted the Japanese practice of carving perfectly round ice balls.
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As described by ice sculptor Joseph Amendola in his book Ice Carving Made Easy, written records dating back to 600 BC reveal that in the highlands of northwest China, farmers would flood their fields with water, wait for it to freeze, harvest blocks of ice and then store them in insulated facilities to help preserve perishables like seafood.
The fashion had made for shorter shorts on many of the women, and my lemonade came with slushy, rather than cubed, ice.
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