solidification
noun
the act or process of becoming a hard or compact mass, or of changing from a liquid or gaseous state to a solid state.
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Breathe upon such a pane before the fires are lighted, and reduce the solid crystalline film to the liquid condition; then watch its subsequent resolidification.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall