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ice minus

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ice minus (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of ice-minus
    • 1985, American Council on Science and Health, ACSH News & Views: Volumes 6-8, page 19:
      Not everything is going to be as safe or as easy to evaluate as "ice minus".
    • 1990, Louis A. Cox, Paolo F. Ricci, New Risks: Issues and Management, page 241:
      These filters may create problems which are accentuated when the problem is a nonroutine one, such as toxic shock, ice minus, or even Chernobyl.
    • 2003, Stephen Nottingham, Eat Your Genes: How Genetically Modified Food Is Entering Our Diet, page 76:
      An early application of genetic entineering to crop productions was the ice minus bacteria, one of the first releases of a genetically modified organism into an agricultural ecosystem.