firn

granular snow, especially on the upper part of a glacier, where it has not yet been compressed into ice
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firn

Summary

firn is a type of mixture of chemical entities[1]. firn draws 119 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_mixture_of_chemical_entities category, ranking #31 of 80).[2]

Key Facts

  • firn's instance of is recorded as type of mixture of chemical entities[3].
  • firn's GND ID is recorded as 4258645-8[4].
  • firn's subclass of is recorded as snow[5].
  • firn's Commons category is recorded as Firn[6].
  • firn's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05rl93[7].
  • firn's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[8].
  • firn's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • firn's described by source is recorded as Antarctica: The Melting Continent[10].
  • firn's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/firn[11].
  • firn's density is recorded as {'unit': 'Q844211', 'amount': '+715'}[12].
  • firn's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_03000002[13].
  • firn's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4714570[14].
  • firn's Environment Ontology ID is recorded as 03000002[15].
  • firn's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as firn[16].
  • firn's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17].
  • firn's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 104730834[18].
  • firn's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3901193[19].
  • firn's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C104730834[20].
  • firn's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 111241[21].
  • firn's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 36900[22].
  • firn's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/de4aad06-eb1a-499f-85cd-e825c73e7699[23].

Why It Matters

firn draws 119 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_mixture_of_chemical_entities category, ranking #31 of 80).[2] firn has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] firn is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . avalanches.org. avalanches.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . encyklopedia.pwn.pl. encyklopedia.pwn.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). firn. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/firn
MLA “firn.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/firn.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_firn_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{firn}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/firn}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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