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#<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">A spike of [[ice]] formed during the [[freezing]] of a water drop or a contained volume of  water (as in a puddle or freezer container); expansion of the inward freezing ice expels any remaining  water through a weak point in the shell which then freezes as a spike in the colder [[environment]].</div><br/> </div>
#<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Bright spike of [[luminous]] gas extending from the [[chromosphere]] into the [[corona]] of the  sun.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Spicules are several hundred kilometers in diameter and extend outward 5000&ndash;10 000 km.  Observed in photographs of the limb, these features have a lifetime of several minutes.</div><br/> </div>
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