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the temperature that burns you twice — once cold, once again the next morning
means Covered with, made of, or feeling like ice — or, of a person's manner, coldly unfriendly.
from From Old English īsig, the adjective form of īs, 'ice,' a word shared across the Germanic languages (German Eis, Old Norse íss). The figurative sense of an 'icy' look or tone — frosty without a flake of actual frost — is a later metaphorical chill, the same instinct that lets us call a cold reception 'frosty' or a glare 'frozen.'
- glare power
- a single icy look ends arguments faster than words
- physics quirk
- ice is slippery because pressure melts a thin liquid film
- blue secret
- thick glacial ice glows blue, absorbing red light
- comet truth
- comets are dirty icy snowballs hurtling through space
for instance
lake baikal — world's coldest freshwater lake, reaches -46°c in winter, siberia
vostok station — antarctic research station, recorded -89.2°c in 1983, coldest place on earth