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.
In fact, regelation will confer upon it all the appearance of viscosity.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John
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 Joly, John
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
“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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Mr. James Thomson had referred regelation to the cold produced by the liquefaction of the pressed ice; but in the above experiment all pressure is not only taken away, but is replaced by tension.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John
