regelation
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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
There is nothing new in it, except a few additional pages about "regelation," and also "gravity."
From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville
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
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 John Tyndall
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
