View Full Document. Ice Pellets Ice pellets (also called sleet) are refrozen snowflakes. They occur when a layer of air aloft is warm enough (> 0 ï° C) to melt snowflakes into raindrops but the air near the ground is cold enough to freeze the drops.
acarid - very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks. 1  mite - any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods. 2  Acaridae, family Acaridae - mites.
clarification (Noun). The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.