Eventually, the ice thickens into a more stable sheet with a smooth bottom surface, called congelation ice. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
This congelation that Tim O'Reilly constructed, that is not a complete thought. From Wordnik.com. [Eyebeam reBlog] Reference
“But surely this process of congelation must have a limit!” said the count. From Wordnik.com. [Off on a Comet] Reference
'Ah!' cried Mrs, Arlbery, 'look but at that piece of congelation that nothing seems to thaw!. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
In what precedes stress has been laid chiefly upon the fall of temperature and the congelation of the water vapor. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
I had to shower and imagine the hot water peeling back the congelation of that sick-sweet sweat born of the anxiety of bad dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Object Liberation] Reference
We may be surprised to find that congelation rests at the same, or nearly the same, level in the Alps of Switzerland, and on the Corsican mountains eight degrees further south. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
This defiance of the seasons, forcing Nature to do her work of congelation, in the face of her sultriest noon, might well inspire a timid mind with fear lest human art were revolting against the Higher. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference
From one lac of roses it is generally calculated that 180 grains, or one tolah, of attar can be procured; more than this can be obtained if the roses are full-sized, and the nights cold to allow of the congelation. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
"But surely this process of congelation must have a limit!" said the count. From Wordnik.com. [Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space] Reference
Colonel in the crenellated tower, where he would have died the same day of congelation. From Wordnik.com. [The Man With The Broken Ear] Reference
Considerations générales sur la congelation pendant l'ivresse, observée en Russie en 1812. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812] Reference
All fluids, except water, contract in volume as they become colder to the point of congelation. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes] Reference
Now he understood what congelation the trembling approachers to her majesty must have suffered. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
Some hours after, congelation would supervene, and with it, impossibility of restoration to life. From Wordnik.com. [The Man With The Broken Ear] Reference
Unlike the congelation process, sheet ice formed from consolidated pancakes has a rough bottom surface. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
A contrary operation, as is now well known, takes place during the congelation of water, and heat is evolved. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16] Reference
Depending upon the climatic conditions, sheets can develop from grease and congelation ice, or from pancake ice. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
According to these theories, the earth was inevitably advancing to a state of congelation which was close at hand. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men] Reference
Therefore, this salt must have been in a fluid state of fusion, immediately before its congelation and crystallization. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Earth~ Part 2 (historical)] Reference
His gracious familiarity became transformed, by some mysterious process of congelation, into a dignified formality of manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Robe] Reference
But, as the congelation of the sea-water produces at least 2°, I was at least reassured against the dangers of solidification. From Wordnik.com. [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English] Reference
The columns of basaltes have been raised by the congelation or expansion of granite beds in the act of cooling from their semi-vitreous fusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
As they are surrounded by an ocean never frozen, the blasts that come to them over the water are too much softened to have the power of congelation. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland] Reference
On the one hand I knew that he was dying on my hands by congelation; on the other, I could not, by myself, bestow upon him the attentions that were indispensable. From Wordnik.com. [The Man With The Broken Ear] Reference
In the coldest mornings there is sometimes a cloud or fog-bank resting near the earth, from the congelation and falling of all watery particles in the atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life] Reference
It was the Aurora Borealis, just risen up for the winter season out of the freezing seas of the north, where every autumn vapour was now undergoing rapid congelation. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
Sumatra neither snow nor other congelation is ever produced, which militates against the most plausible conjecture that has been adopted concerning the Alpine goitres. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
Sunday, he would stand by her bedside all day, smothering her with blankets when the process of congelation was going on, or fanning her when the fever fit was on her. From Wordnik.com. [The Planter's Northern Bride] Reference
It appears that when in those countries the streams are reduced nearly to the freezing point, congelation begins frequently at the bottom; the reason being, according to. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
We put this mixture cleverly into a sort of horn-shaped vessel, with another to serve as a retort; and placed the whole apparatus upon our furnace to produce congelation. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
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