regelation
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We know that at 32° Fahrenheit, regelation renders the mass continuous, and that it becomes brittle only at a temperature below this.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 by Various
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 Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
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
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
“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
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