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noun
An icicle-shaped rust formation, formed on shipwrecks etc. by underwater microbes that consume iron.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Blend of rust + icicle, coined by Robert Ballard, who first observed them on the wreck of the Titanic in 1986.
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