Category talk:Ball ice

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Name of the category

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Just for the record (or in case somebody wants to write an article for Wikipedia): I've termed this "Ball ice" instead of the perhaps more nearby "Ice balls" for two reasons:

  1. Ice balls in the sense of "balls made of ice" can be formed by other means than the phenomenon this category is about.
  2. It is used not only by Marshall 1966[1]; the term is also used in the Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology[2] and Journal of Glaciology[3]

--El Grafo (talk) 09:49, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. Marshall, Ernest Willard (1966) (in English) , Ann Arbor, Michchigan: Great Lakes Research Division, Institute of Science and Technology, University of Michigan, pp. 22–23
  2. Morris, Christopher , ed. (in English) (1992) Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, San Diego: Academic Press, p. 212 ISBN: 0-12-200400-0.
  3. Kawamura, Toshiyuki; Toshihiro Ozeki; Hiroyuki Wakabayashi; Minoru Koarai (2009). "Unusual lake ice phenomena observed in Lake Inawashiro, Japan: spray ice and ice balls". Journal of Glaciology 55 (193). International Glaciological Society.