regelation
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In fact, regelation will confer upon it all the appearance of viscosity.
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
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
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
“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)
