congelation

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We may be surprised to find that congelation rests at the same, or nearly the same, level in the Alps of Switzerland, and on the Corsican mountains eight degrees further south.

From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Forester, Thomas

The inner tube is then emptied, care being taken to leave a few small ice crystals to serve as centres of congelation for the subsequent experiment, thus avoiding supercooling of the solution.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

He thus discovered over again the famous law on the lowering of the congelation temperature of solvents which had just been established by M. Raoult after a long series of now classic researches.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien

On the one hand I knew that he was dying on my hands by congelation; on the other, I could not, by myself, bestow upon him the attentions that were indispensable.

From The Man With The Broken Ear by Holt, Henry

Similar divergences were manifested in the delays observed in congelation, and disappeared when subjected to an analogous correction.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien