Ice stalactite
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A brinicle (brine icicle, also known as an ice stalactite) is a downward-growing hollow tube of ice enclosing a plume of descending brine that is formed beneath developing sea ice.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ice stalactite” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.