Crossword-Solution: REGELATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Regelation | n. | The act or process of freezing anew, or together,as two pieces of ice. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REGELATION | anagram | RELEGATION |
We have 1 clue for the answer “REGELATION”
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| freezing again, especially of water from ice melted by pressure when pressure is relieved | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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ACEMZE
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eruption
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Sentences with REGELATION (5)
This, I think, is a satisfactory explanation of the manner in which the ice formed at the surface finds its way to the bottom; its adherence to the bottom, I think, is explained by the phenomenon of _regelation_, first observed by Faraday; he found that when the wetted surfaces of two pieces of ice were pressed together they froze together, and that this took place under water even when above the freezing point.
Regelation was observed by these philosophers in carefully arranged experiments with prepared surfaces fitting together accurately, and kept in contact sufficiently long to allow the freezing together to take place.
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.
The phenomenon is commonly called "regelation." I have already made the usual regelation experiment before you when I compressed broken ice in this mould.
But a little further down the wound is healed again, and regelation has restored the smooth surface of the glacier.