Meaning of pipkrake | Babel Free

Definitions

Needle ice; ice structures formed when the air temperature is below 0℃ and the soil is not.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

“The most widespread and familiar example of this process is that associated with the growth of needle ice or pipkrake (Figure 5.15), needles of clear ice commonly exceeding 5 cm in length. Growth of pipkrake is favoured by supercooling of the soil in conditions of marked radiative heat loss from the surface […]”

CEFR level