More about pogonip, or ice fog, because I found it interesting: it comes from Shoshone paγi̵nappi̵h, meaning, unsurprisingly, "cloud." American settlers in the early days called it the "white death," because they thought the ice crystals would kill them if it entered their lungs. Humidity has to be around 100% as the temperature drops below freezing for the ice crystals to form in the air and start to settle on things.
⚛ Units of the Week
Phon: a unit of loudness
Phoneme: a unit of speech
Phonon: a quantum of vibrational energy
Phot: a unit of illumination
Photon: an elementary particle
Phratry: a tribal unit among primitive peoples
Phyton: a structural unit of a plant
Piaster: a monetary unit of several Arab countries
Picayune: a former Spanish-American coin
Pice: a former coin of India and Pakistan
Picogram: one trillionth of a gram
Picomole: one trillionth of a mole
Picul: an Asian unit of weight
Pion: a subatomic particle
Pistole: a formerly used European gold coin
Pixel: a basic unit of a video image
Plack: a former coin of Scotland
Polaron: a type of electron
!!! Unexpected Words of the Week
Pheresis: withdrawal of blood from a donor, removing some components, and returning the remaining blood to the donor
Phreak: to gain illegal access to a long-distance telephone service to avoid tolls (this word is a lot cooler than its definition)
Picaroon: to act as a pirate
Pinder: an official who formerly impounded stray animals
Pisher: a young or inexperienced person
Pishogue: an evil spell
Pismire: an ant
Plugugly: a hoodlum
Plumbum: lead
♡ Favorite Words of the Week
Philtrum: the indentation between the upper lip and the nose
Playa: the bottom of a desert basin
Pleonasm: the use of needless words
Plumeria: a flowering shrub (one of my favorite smells from the Marshall Islands)
Phon: a unit of loudness
Phoneme: a unit of speech
Phonon: a quantum of vibrational energy
Phot: a unit of illumination
Photon: an elementary particle
Phratry: a tribal unit among primitive peoples
Phyton: a structural unit of a plant
Piaster: a monetary unit of several Arab countries
Picayune: a former Spanish-American coin
Pice: a former coin of India and Pakistan
Picogram: one trillionth of a gram
Picomole: one trillionth of a mole
Picul: an Asian unit of weight
Pion: a subatomic particle
Pistole: a formerly used European gold coin
Pixel: a basic unit of a video image
Plack: a former coin of Scotland
Polaron: a type of electron
!!! Unexpected Words of the Week
Pheresis: withdrawal of blood from a donor, removing some components, and returning the remaining blood to the donor
Phreak: to gain illegal access to a long-distance telephone service to avoid tolls (this word is a lot cooler than its definition)
Picaroon: to act as a pirate
Pinder: an official who formerly impounded stray animals
Pisher: a young or inexperienced person
Pishogue: an evil spell
Pismire: an ant
Plugugly: a hoodlum
Plumbum: lead
♡ Favorite Words of the Week
Philtrum: the indentation between the upper lip and the nose
Playa: the bottom of a desert basin
Pleonasm: the use of needless words
Plumeria: a flowering shrub (one of my favorite smells from the Marshall Islands)
(Pages 421–434)