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Regelation
Regelation Re`ge*la"tion (-l?"sh?n), n. [Pref. re- + L.
gelatio a freezing.] (Physics)
The act or process of freezing anew, or together,as two
pieces of ice.
Note: Two pieces of ice at (or even) 32? Fahrenheit, with
moist surfaces, placed in contact, freeze together to a
rigid mass. This is called regelation. --Faraday.
Meaning of Regelation from wikipedia
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Regelation is the
phenomenon of ice
melting under pressure and
refreezing when the
pressure is reduced. This can be
demonstrated by
looping a fine wire...
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ionization Ionization Lambda point Melting Melting point Recombination Regelation Saturated fluid Sublimation Supercooling Triple point Vaporization Vitrification...
- particles. An
influential early explanation by
James Thomson invoked regelation, in
which a
solid is
melted by
pressure and then re-frozen. When forming...
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become trapped in the glacier. In this way,
plucking has been
linked to
regelation.
Rocks of all
sizes can
become trapped in the
bottom of the glacier. Joint...
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downwards toward the
warmer soil in a
process that
Faraday called "thermal
regelation." This
effect purifies the ice
lenses as they form by
repelling fine soil...
- to some
degree as if the ice were a
viscous fluid, it was
argued that "
regelation", or the
melting and
refreezing of ice at a
temperature lowered by the...
- explanation,
called "pressure melting",
originated in the 19th century. (See
Regelation.)
Pressure melting could not
account for
skating on ice
temperatures lower...
- them, and that
after the
motion was suspended, the
pieces were
united by
regelation. It was a
crude form of
analogous experiment exhibited by Davy in the...
- and
contributed an
introductory Memoir: Aitken, J. 1872.
Melting and
regelation of ice.
Nature 6:396. Aitken, J. 1873.
Glacier motion.
Nature 7(172):287–288...
- time did not know of the
phenomenon of
regelation,
which was
discovered a
little later by
Michael Faraday.
Regelation pla**** a key role in Tyndall's explanation...
