 Ice giant (source code)

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= Ice giant
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A giant planet with a much larger heavy-element fraction than a typical <gas giant>, exemplified by <Uranus> and <Neptune>. Water, ammonia and other volatile-rich materials are called “ices” in formation terminology; they need not remain ordinary frozen solids in the hot deep interior.

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