regelation

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There is nothing new in it, except a few additional pages about "regelation," and also "gravity."

From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Somerville, Mary

I have already made the usual regelation experiment before you when I compressed broken ice in this mould.

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John

Indeed, it was new welded by regelation since the sun’s rays had disappeared.

From The Silent Barrier by Tracy, Louis

Mr. James Thomson had referred regelation to the cold produced by the liquefaction of the pressed ice; but in the above experiment all pressure is not only taken away, but is replaced by tension.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

It is formed in water, and not from the cementing and regelation of the powdery crystalline snow, as is glacier ice.

From More Science From an Easy Chair by Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir