congelation

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In the case of persons or animals drowned in sea water, a similar alteration of the point of congelation is observed, but in the reverse direction.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

He thus discovered over again the famous law on the lowering of the congelation temperature of solvents which had just been established by M. Raoult after a long series of now classic researches.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien

What reason is there why, for instance, thought should not be termed a property of thinking protoplasm, just as congelation is a property of water, and centrifugience of gas?

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas

The principal chain is about 1500 miles long, and the principal peaks rise above or approach the line of perpetual congelation, Miltsin in Morocco being 11,400 feet high, and Tizi Likumpt being 13,150.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various

The inner tube is then emptied, care being taken to leave a few small ice crystals to serve as centres of congelation for the subsequent experiment, thus avoiding supercooling of the solution.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane