congelation
Americannoun
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the act or process of congealing; the state of being congealed.
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the product of congealing; a concretion; coagulation.
noun
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the process of congealing
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something formed by this process
Etymology
Origin of congelation
1375–1425; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin congelātiōn- (stem of congelātiō ). See congeal, -ation
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Some hours after, congelation would supervene, and with it, impossibility of restoration to life.
From The Man With The Broken Ear by Henry Holt
Their vitality is strong, and their power of regeneration from partial congelation is very great.
From The Ranidae How to breed, feed and raise the edible frog by Unknown
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 Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
He thus discovered over again the famous law on the lowering of the congelation temperature of solvents which had just been established by M. Raoult after a long series of now classic researches.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré
Koryani has studied the ratio of the point of congelation of urine to that of a solution containing an equal quantity of chloride of sodium.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
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