regelation
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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 Garnett, William
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 Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir
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 Tyndall, John
It was moist and soft, in fact in a condition altogether favourable for the "regelation" of its granules.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John
