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
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 John Tyndall
I have already made the usual regelation experiment before you when I compressed broken ice in this mould.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
Then again, what I have described as 'intrusive layers of blue ice' was a remarkable feature; one could imagine that these layers represent surfaces which have been transformed by regelation under hot sun and wind.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott
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 John Tyndall
