regelation

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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

These facts are the exact complements of those of "regelation;" for here, two moist surfaces of ice being brought into close contact, their liquid liberty is destroyed and the surfaces freeze together.

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

I question, however, the statement, that regelation takes place by the freezing of a film of water between the fragments.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 by Various

“Has the theory of regelation been put to the proof?” asked Lewis, with a degree of interest in glaciers which he had never before felt.

From Rivers of Ice by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

It was moist and soft, in fact in a condition altogether favourable for the "regelation" of its granules.

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