regelation

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• In a discourse given at the Royal Institution on 7 June 1850, he devoted most of his remarks to elegant experiments he had conducted on regelation, the freezing together of two ice cubes when they come into contact.

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• "If brought into the slightest contact, regelation ensued, the blocks adhered, and they remained adherent notwithstanding the force tending to pull them apart."

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• In 1963, J. W. Telford and J. S. Turner carried out a series of regelation experiments, each at a different temperature, in which a wire under pressure slowly migrates through ice.

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• Shortly after Faraday's published account appeared in 1859, James Thomson took the position that the regelation Faraday observed was due to pressure on the ice cubes.

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• The phenomenon of regelation explains how ice can fuse together under weight, then hold its shape when the weight is lifted.

• During his experiments, he demonstrated that regelation occurs when two ice masses merge due to the pressure exerted on them.

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