conglaciationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

conglaciation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 conglaciations)

1. (archaic) The act or process of changing into ice; a freezing or congelation.
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

     The artificial experiment of conglaciation of water by Ice with black salt.

   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica

     And remained in a fluid body, it was a subject very unapt for proper conglaciation.

     No other doth properly conglaciate but water: for the determination of quicksilver is properly fixation, and that of milk coagulation.