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Letter: For the record – 19 January 2019

Published 16 January 2019

• Cave bears died out around the last glacial period within the recent ice age (22/29 December 2018, p 54).

• The photo used to illustrate frost flowers was of hair ice, which exudes from logs. Water is more likely to supercool if particulate impurities are absent (22/29 December 2018, p 52).

Issue no. 3213 published 19 January 2019

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