Congelation [noun]

Upon the first principle, or the absorption of heat, are founded the various artificial methods of producing cold and congelation.

It is just possible that the point of congelation may not be entirely independent of the presence of air in the water.

His gracious familiarity became transformed, by some mysterious process of congelation, into a dignified formality of manner.

Thus we would have a line of great heat and evaporation, graduating each way into a point of great cold and congelation.

But as soon as the surface of the torrent cools to the point of congelation, it loses the splendour of its first incandescence.

Now he understood what congelation the trembling approachers to her majesty must have suffered.

A contrary operation, as is now well known, takes place during the congelation of water, and heat is evolved.

All fluids, except water, contract in volume as they become colder to the point of congelation.

The water at our anchorage being fresh at half-tide, was, no doubt, in favour of this rapid congelation.

The mountain was scaled: the region of perpetual congelation was entered.