Home › Entities › general › frazil ice

frazil ice

ice crystals that form in supercooled water that is too turbulent to permit coagulation into sheet ice
Thing general Q2578228
frazil ice
National Park Service · Public Domain · Wikimedia
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

frazil ice ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (456 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • frazil ice is a type of ice crystal[2].
  • frazil ice's Commons category is recorded as Frazil ice[3].
  • frazil ice's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[4].
  • frazil ice's described by source is recorded as Antarctica: The Melting Continent[5].
  • frazil ice's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_03000046[6].

Body

Definition and Type

frazil ice is a type of ice crystal[2].

Why It Matters

frazil ice ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (456 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). frazil ice. Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/frazil-ice
MLA “frazil ice.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 17 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/frazil-ice.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_frazil-ice_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{frazil ice}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/frazil-ice}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-17}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): frazil ice — https://4ort.xyz/entity/frazil-ice (retrieved 2026-10-17)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/frazil-ice · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 14
    Environment ontology id → 03000046, 01001523
    Subclass of → —
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'id', 'ja', 'ms', 'no', 'pa', 'p
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Environment ontology id: 01001523, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/143356120|frazil (#143356120)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5484|Environment Ontolog"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.