congelation

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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

No doubt they had tried to swim across at the moment of congelation, and had been unable to disengage themselves.

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

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

I. To leave the Colonel in the crenellated tower, where he would have died the same day of congelation.

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