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The Ice House

Abar-Kuh, Iran

A Persian ice house, or yakhchal, is an ancient passive refrigerator allowing the storage of ice in the deserts of Iran. Ice was collected in winter and stored in the ice house where it was kept cool in summer by the domed shape and thick walls made from a special mud called srooj, composed of sand, clay, egg whites, lime, goat hair, and ash, which was resistant to heat transfer. Ice-houses are believed to have been used in Iran as early as two thousand years ago (although textual archaeological evidence dates only to the 17th century) and have been employed as recently as 50 years ago.

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