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 William Garnett
In fact, regelation will confer upon it all the appearance of viscosity.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
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
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
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