regelation
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Indeed, it was new welded by regelation since the sun’s rays had disappeared.
From The Silent Barrier by Louis Tracy
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 John Tyndall
In fact, regelation will confer upon it all the appearance of viscosity.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
I question, however, the statement, that regelation takes place by the freezing of a film of water between the fragments.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 by Various
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 John Joly
