stalactite in English

noun
1
a tapering structure hanging like an icicle from the roof of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water.
Originally formed by a subterranean stream, then flooded by the sea, it is a rare opportunity to dive in salt water among stalactites and stalagmites.

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1. Seepage flow can be observed in stalactite caves.

2. The nose is a manifest congealed drop or stalactite.

3. It takes thousands of years to form a stalactite cave.

4. Rock is rock, not marble, not a stalactite, but the most humble rock.

5. You can calculate, how long will it take for the stalactite of such type to grow.

6. In Crete, we also find the double axe engraved on stalactite columns in caves.

7. It is a particularly unusual monument because it is sculpted from a stalactite.

8. Stalactite consisting of a variety of landscape, the story is very touching story.

9. Linglongti tou stalactite cave, if you long , if the Tigers, if the Lotus, if the coral.

10. Caverne Patate, in the island's southwestern corner, is an impressive cave system with a few stalagmite and stalactite formations

11. La Pyramide Inversee-a huge inverted skylight that hung from the ceiling like a stalactite in an adjoining section of the entresol.

12. A Brinicle (brine icicle, also known as ice stalactite) is a downward growing hollow tube of ice enclosing a plume of descending brine that is formed beneath developing sea ice

13. What does Brinicle mean? Brinicle is defined by the lexicographers at Oxford Dictionaries as A long 'an unprecedented time-lapse shot underwater records the growth of a Brinicle—an ice stalactite.

14. A Brinicle (brine icicle, also known as ice stalactite) is a downward-growing hollow tube of ice enclosing a plume of descending brine that is formed beneath developing sea ice.Ehraz Ahmed

15. Eight hundred miles south of the North Pole, stalactite-like stratus clouds—churned by 90-mile-an-hour winds—and the light of a bruised dawn paint an apocalyptic portrait over Inglefield Bay.

16. Moisture runs off the body, causing the hard ice shell to form in the same fashion as a stalactite; the Crystallite will have this resilient shell for the rest of its life.2 A