congelation

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But congelation does not kill them, and they can easily be thawed into life, by melting the ice that surrounds them.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

I. To leave the Colonel in the crenellated tower, where he would have died the same day of congelation.

From The Man With The Broken Ear by Holt, Henry

According to these theories, the earth was inevitably advancing to a state of congelation which was close at hand.

From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert

Some hours after, congelation would supervene, and with it, impossibility of restoration to life.

From The Man With The Broken Ear by Holt, Henry

Or a herd of mammoths returning from their summer pastures in the north, may have been surprised, while crossing a stream, by the sudden congelation of the waters.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir