1.   If the temperature of the air is very, very cold, salt is not effective in melting ice.

2.   Many years ago, before people had freezers, they made ice cream by using melting ice to cool the mixture.

3.   Surface waters in contact with melting ice tend to be very thinly populated with zooplankton.

4.   The sun must only be a rare visitor to this mysterious landscape where spring flowers push through the slowly melting ice.

5.   Zwally observes that melting ice has flooded the Earth before.

6.   Spring flowers pushed through the slowly melting ice.

7.   The air was filled with sublime music and the sound of burning wood was like the soft crackle of melting ice.

8.   Like melting ice, it dazzled the eye.