Hair Ice
The meteorologist Alfred Wegener described hair ice on wet dead wood in 1918, assuming some specific fungi as catalysator, a theory mostly confirmed by Gerhart Wagner and Christian Mätzler in 2005.
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Famous quotes containing the words hair and/or ice:
“Time that scatters hair upon a head
Spreads the ice sheet on the shaven lawn;
Signing an annual permit for the frost....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“How’d you like some ice cream, Doc?”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)