congelation

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I. To leave the Colonel in the crenellated tower, where he would have died the same day of congelation.

From The Man With The Broken Ear by Holt, Henry

Their vitality is strong, and their power of regeneration from partial congelation is very great.

From The Ranidae How to breed, feed and raise the edible frog by Unknown

While in the end this electrical energy becomes active heat, it does not for the time being, and thus favors the ready congelation of the condensed moisture into hailstones.

From Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. by Gray, Elisha

The saline matter which sea-water holds in solution, prevents its congelation, except where the most intense cold prevails.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

He thus discovered over again the famous law on the lowering of the congelation temperature of solvents which had just been established by M. Raoult after a long series of now classic researches.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien