regelation
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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