congelation

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The principal chain is about 1500 miles long, and the principal peaks rise above or approach the line of perpetual congelation, Miltsin in Morocco being 11,400 feet high, and Tizi Likumpt being 13,150.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various

In mixtures of chemical compounds it is presumable that the separate factors will disengage themselves from each other more and more completely, and form in purer masses as the congelation is slowly carried on.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various

But congelation does not kill them, and they can easily be thawed into life, by melting the ice that surrounds them.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

It forms near, and above, the point of congelation, and is often composed of crystals of ice or snow.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden

These tubes imbibe the aqueous fluid during the day, which freezes, it is said, in the cold of the night, and expands while in the act of congelation.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir