element

Snow

Elements · Nature

Soft ice crystals falling or lying as cover. Not frost on a pane, and not ice as solid water mass.

  • Snow is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats snow among cold applications used to chill and check. A Roman-era pharmacological use of soft ice-fall, not ice as a solid mass and not frost on a pane.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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