glaze
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smooth, transparent and homogeneous ice coating occurring when freezing rain or drizzle hits a surface
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- hydrometeor
- Follows
- freezing drizzle
- Material used
- ice
- Image
- Ice on grass.jpg
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- different from
- black ice
- Commons category
- Glaze (ice)
- Commons gallery
- Glaze (ice)
- density
- 0.9
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Encyclopedic overview
Glaze on a blade of grass Glaze or glaze ice, also called glazed frost or verglas, is a smooth, transparent and homogeneous ice coating occurring when freezing rain or drizzle hits a surface. It is similar in appearance to clear ice, which forms from supercooled water droplets. It is a relatively common occurrence in temperate climates in the winter when precipitation forms in warm air aloft and falls into below-freezing temperature at the surface.
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