freezing mixture

British  

noun

1. a mixture of two substances, usually salt and ice, to give a temperature below 0°C

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freezing mixture

A cheap and powerful freezing mixture may be made by pulverizing Glauber's salts finely, and placing it level at the bottom of a glass vessel.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829 by Various

But if you go to Canada, or to the North, you will find the temperature there out of doors will do the same thing as has been done here by the freezing mixture.

From The Chemical History of a Candle by Sir William Crookes

Place a bottle in a Champagne cooler and around it a freezing mixture of fine Ice and Salt.

From The Ideal Bartender by Tom Bullock

Into the freezing mixture of ice and salt poor Jumpo plunged his paw, and in an instant it was frozen fast there, and he couldn't get it out, as the late afternoon was cold.

From Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail The Funny Monkey Boys by Howard R. Garis

Removing the lamp and piling a freezing mixture round the flask, the liquid column falls, thus showing the contraction of the water by the cold.

From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall