congelation

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What reason is there why, for instance, thought should not be termed a property of thinking protoplasm, just as congelation is a property of water, and centrifugience of gas?

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas

These tubes imbibe the aqueous fluid during the day, which freezes, it is said, in the cold of the night, and expands while in the act of congelation.

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

This maximum reading is the true point of congelation.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

In mixtures of chemical compounds it is presumable that the separate factors will disengage themselves from each other more and more completely, and form in purer masses as the congelation is slowly carried on.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various

A contrary operation, as is now well known, takes place during the congelation of water, and heat is evolved.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert