These philosophers have discovered that when ice is subjected to great pressure it melts, and that, when the pressure is removed, the part so melted immediately freezes again -- hence the name regelation, or re-freezing, is given to the process. From Wordnik.com. [Rivers of Ice] Reference
I question, however, the statement, that regelation takes place. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
We know that at 32° Fahrenheit, regelation renders the mass continuous, and that it becomes brittle only at a temperature below this. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
Faraday concerning regelation, and the application of the facts made known by the great English physicist to the theory of the glaciers, as first presented by Dr. Tyndall in his admirable work, show that fragments of ice with most surfaces are readily reunited under pressure into a solid mass. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
When a piece of ice of considerable size comes in contact under water with ice or other substance, it would usually touch in an area very small in proportion to its mass, and other forces acting upon it, and tending to move it, would usually exceed the freezing force, and regelation would not take place. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
If it be contended that ice at 32° does break, and that therefore the whole mass of the glacier may break at that temperature, setting aside the contradiction to the facts of regelation which such an assumption involves, I would refer to Dr. Tyndall's experiments concerning the vacuous spots in the ice. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
There were also differences because the alternative media were prepared to defy press restrictions while the mainstream newspapers, despite their power, continued to support shameful special agreements with the South African police, the SADF, the South African Department of Prisons - a regime of rigorous self censorship that protected the Pretoria Government against regelation of its worst excesses. From Wordnik.com. [Address by Comrade President Nelson R Mandela to the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers Conference] Reference
In the minute needles formed at the surface of the water the tendency to adhere would be much the same as in larger masses touching at points only, while the external forces acting upon them would be extremely small in proportion, and regelation would often occur, and of the immense number of the needles of ice formed at the surface enough would adhere to produce the effect which we observe and call anchor ice. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
"Has the theory of regelation been put to the proof?" asked Lewis, with. From Wordnik.com. [Rivers of Ice] Reference
In fact, regelation will confer upon it all the appearance of viscosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
The one refers it mainly to regelation; the other to a real viscosity of the ice. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
I have already made the usual regelation experiment before you when I compressed broken ice in this mould. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
The faces weld together through the process of regelation: the freezing of a layer of water between ice masses. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Blogging] Reference
She postulated that the rocks are moving by regelation, a process usually associated with glaciers and mountains. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
But a little further down the wound is healed again, and regelation has restored the smooth surface of the glacier. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
It is formed in water, and not from the cementing and regelation of the powdery crystalline snow, as is glacier ice. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
THE THEORY of the regelation of ice has led to scientific discussions between Faraday and Tyndall on the one hand, and James and Sir W. Thomson on the other. From Wordnik.com. [Ice and Glaciers] Reference
Hence, I doubt not that Tyndall has discovered the essential and principal cause of the motion of glaciers, in referring it to the formation of cracks and to regelation. From Wordnik.com. [Ice and Glaciers] Reference
Faraday, who discovered this property, called it the regelation of ice; the explanation of this phenomenon has been much controverted; I have detailed to you that which I consider most satisfactory. From Wordnik.com. [Ice and Glaciers] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference
We had thus perpetual rupture and regelation; while the little sounds consequent upon rupture reinforced by the partial echoes from the surfaces of the granules, were blended together to a note resembling the lowing of cows. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2] Reference
As seems to be inevitable in the progress of our species, each of these changes involved losses, compensated by final gains; for humanity moves like a glacier, plastically, but with alternating phases of advance and retreat, obeying laws of fracture and regelation. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
The phenomenon is commonly called "regelation.". From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
Let this process be continued long enough, and the mass of snow is changed to a kind of ice-gravel, or, if the grains adhere together, to something like what we call pudding-stone, allowing, of course, for the difference of material; the snow, which has been rendered cohesive by the process of partial melting and regelation, holding the ice-globules together, just as the loose materials of the pudding-stone are held together by the cement which unites them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference
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