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regelated

Variant of regelation

noun

a freezing or refreezing together of pieces of ice after a pressure, which has caused melting at a temperature below the normal melting point, has been removed

Origin: see re- & gelation

Related Forms:

regelate intransitive verb regelated, regelating

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