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

But as soon as the surface of the torrent cools to the point of congelation, it loses the splendour of its first incandescence.

From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Palmieri, Luigi

This maximum reading is the true point of congelation.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

Some hours after, congelation would supervene, and with it, impossibility of restoration to life.

From The Man With The Broken Ear by Holt, Henry

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