Ice

Ice is watter frozen intae a solit state. It can appear transparent or opaque bluish-white colour, dependin on the presence o impurities or air inclusions. The addeetion o ither materials sic as syle mey further alter its appearance.

Ice appears naiturally in furms o snawflauchts, hail, iceshoggles, ice spikes an candles, glaciers, pack ice, frost, an polar ice caps. It is an important component o the global climate an plays an important role in the watter cycle. Furthermair, ice haes numerous cultural applications, frae ice cuiling o drinks tae winter sports tae the airt o ice sculptin.

The molecules in solit ice mey be arranged in numerous different ways, cried phases, dependin on the temperatur an pressur. teepically, ice is the phase kent as ice I_h, which is the maist abundant o the varyin solit phases on Yird's surface. The maist common phase transeetion tae ice I_h occurs when liquid watter is cuiled belaw 0°C (273.15K, 32°F) at staundart atmospheric pressur. It can an aa deposit frae vapour wi na intervenin liquid phase, sic as in the furmation o frost.

The wird is derived frae Auld Inglis īs, which in turn stems frae Proto-Germanic isaz.