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ice stupa

ice stupa noun: a rough cone of ice created by spraying piped water into the air in freezing conditions, used to store water in a form that allows gradual release over an extended time.

ice stupa: a rough cone of ice created by spraying piped water into the air in freezing conditions, used to...
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Noun

ice stupa (plural ice stupas)

  1. A rough cone of ice created by spraying piped water into the air in freezing conditions, used to store water in a form that allows gradual release over an extended time.
    • Ice stupas were designed by Sonam Wangchuk in 2014, as scalable ice towers that can store fall and winter water, as ice, for use during the following spring and summer.2016, Carey Clouse, “Design for Autonomy: Water Resources in Ladakh”, in Anandajit Goswami, Arabinda Mishra, editors, Economic Modeling, Analysis, and Policy for Sustainability, Business Science...
    • By controlling the state of water—converting it from a fast-flowing liquid into ice, and then later into a slow-flowing liquid state, whilst also ensuring that none of it is lost via evaporation—the ice stupa has inadvertently utlized freeze concentration in a new and unique way, adapting it to the...2023, Hersh Haladker, Raghunath Mashelkar, “Can a Popsicle Ease Global Warming Problems?”, in Exprovement: Exponential Improvement Through Converging Parallels, Penguin, →ISBN, page 65

Forms of ice stupa

pluralice stupas

Origin of ice stupa

A cone of ice that is reminiscent of the shape of a stupa.

Questions about ice stupa

What does ice stupa mean?
Ice stupa means a rough cone of ice created by spraying piped water into the air in freezing conditions, used to store water in a form that allows gradual release over an extended time.
What part of speech is ice stupa?
Ice stupa is a noun.
What is the plural of ice stupa?
The plural of ice stupa is ice stupas.

Words near ice stupa in the dictionary

  1. ice sleds
  2. ice spar
  3. ice spike
  4. ice storm
  5. ice storms
  6. ice stupa
  7. ice stupas
  8. ice swimmer
  9. ice swimmers
  10. ice swimming
  11. ICE table

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