regelation
Example Sentences
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“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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
It is this same principle of regelation which enables men to cross snow bridges in safety.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
But a little further down the wound is healed again, and regelation has restored the smooth surface of the glacier.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
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 William Garnett
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 John Joly
