regelation
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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
The one refers it mainly to regelation; the other to a real viscosity of the ice.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John
When the attachments of pressed ice are broken, the continuity of the mass is restored by the regelation of the new contiguous surfaces.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John
The conclusion was afterwards experimentally verified by Sir William Thomson, and served to explain all the phenomena of regelation.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William
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
