(a.) Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.
(a.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.
Example Sentences:
(1) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
(2) The fundamental behavioural adaptations implicit in the 'Upper Palaeolithic Revolution' (possibly including language) are thought to have been responsible for this rapid dispersal of human populations over the ecologically demanding environments of last-glacial Europe.
(3) IXb, diacetate of IX, unpurified, was converted to IXf with chromium trioxide in glacial acetic acid.
(4) The same analogue also manifested a marked analgesic effect with the two tests used: hot plate test and the peritoneal test with glacial acetic acid.
(5) Fix for 4 days in 18 parts 80% ethanol, 1 part 10% formalin, and 1 part glacial acetic acid.
(6) Larvae for morphological study were collected by pepsin digestion, fixed in glacial acetic acid, and cleared in glycerin.
(7) We used a polyclonal antibody (West antibody) to measure ACTH-like immunoactivity in glacial acetic acid extracts of five tissues in adult male rats at increasing times (1, 7, 14, and 28 days) after hypophysectomy or adrenalectomy, and in normal control rats.
(8) This report presents a case of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy developing within 2 h after ingestion of 96% (glacial) acetic acid in an attempted suicide.
(9) It’s because we are right, and however glacially society evolves, it is evolving in the right direction.
(10) Thirty-nine patients with benign prostatic enlargement were treated by transperineal intrasprostatic injections composed of phenol 2%, glacial acetic acid 2%, and glycerine 4%, in distilled water.
(11) Guinness also wielded glacial fierceness and terror with unchallengeable authority.
(12) A variant Golgi technique was developed that consisted of substituting osmium tetroxide with formaldehyde as the initial fixative in intracardiac perfusion, along with the addition of glacial acetic acid to the chromating fluid.
(13) The series of pictures tell a story not only about the dramatic reductions in glacial ice in the Himalayas, but also the effects of climate change on the people who live there .
(14) The mobile phase was used in the form of a solvent system: n-heptan-glacial acetic acid (95:5).
(15) And yet despite the iconography of her glacial portraits and the tales of wicked Sir Oswald, Britain's only significant fascist (and, in case it should be forgotten, previously a leading light in the MacDonald-era Labour party), Lady Mosley's real significance rests on her supporting role in a much grander tableau: the story of the Mitford girls and the 80-year sway that they have exerted over upper-level English society.
(16) The level of all three microbial parameters studied slowly increased as the river flowed from its glacial source out into the prairies.
(17) And there are signs from Europe, too, that attitudes are – albeit glacially – starting to shift: on Monday, Europe's food safety agency ruled against a temporary French ban on a strain of GM maize made by the US company Monsanto , saying there was "no specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal health or the environment" to justify it.
(18) But Big Content and Big Telecom, as we know, move glacially.
(19) The main product of the oxidation of catechol in glacial acid is N-(2-carbomethoxyethyl)-phenoxaz-2,3-dione.
(20) When Fritz Müller and Erwin Schneider battled ice storms, altitude sickness and snow blindness in the 1950s to map, measure and photograph the Imja glacier in the Himalayas, they could never have foreseen that the gigantic tongue of millennia-old glacial ice would be reduced to a lake within 50 years.
Glaciation
Definition:
(n.) Act of freezing.
(n.) That which is formed by freezing; ice.
(n.) The process of glaciating, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena.
Example Sentences:
(1) Early on Saturday morning, he reached the summit of Nuptse, the first and lowest of the three main summits in the Everest "horseshoe" that surrounds the glaciated valley called the Western Cwm.
(2) From the top of this glaciated U-shaped valley are views over the Glasglyn river, out to Cardigan Bay and beyond.
(3) In Tasmania there are landlocked populations of G. truttaceus in a cluster of geologically young lakes on the recently glaciated Central Plateau.
(4) The sample fits in a European evolutionary sequence of reducing posterior and expanding anterior permanent teeth, while the deciduous teeth seem to undergo expansion through the Würm glaciation.
(5) The Matterhorn is visible now, and we spot other famous glaciated peaks, the Weisshorn and Breithorn.
(6) Since the discovery of the fossil teeth of Yuanmou man (Homo erectus yuanmouensis) on May 1, 1965 from Yuanmou county, Yunnan Province, the Institute of Geomechanics, relying on the local poor and lower-middle peasants and co-operating with other units concerned, has been conducting intensive researches on the fossil man-bearing strata as well as Quaternary glaciation.
(7) This divergence time suggests that D. pseudoobscura extended its range from North America to South America in a period of Pleistocene glaciation, when habitat suitable for the species presumably existed in lowland Central America.
(8) For the Quaternary, Artemisia is often present with low percentages and is only developing during the glaciation.
(9) This coincides with very rapid glaciation; sea level fell by more than 100 metres, devastating shallow marine ecosystems; less than a million years later, there was a second wave of extinctions as ice melted, sea level rose rapidly, and oceans became oxygen-depleted.
(10) 700,000-10,000 BP) in northern Eurasia and North America was a time of constantly changing climate, ranging from phases of extensive glaciation in cold stages, to temperate periods (interglacials).
(11) Smelt and sea raven belong to taxonomic orders believed to have diverged prior to Cenozoic glaciation.
(12) Asexual taxa have a greater tendency than sexual taxa do to colonize once-glaciated areas.
(13) Jotunheimen national park is a sub-Arctic wilderness with trails up and around glaciated peaks such as Norway's highest, Galdhøppigen.
(14) High in the 2,000-metre-plus Olympic mountains, much of that precipitation falls in the form of snow, which feeds more than 250 glaciers, making this the most glaciated US terrain outside Alaska.
(15) They completely dismiss the rival theory that the stones were carried by glaciers: "The one tiny flaw in the theory is that there is absolutely no evidence for glaciation of Wiltshire," Wainwright said.
(16) Even today, scientific opinion remains divided over whether they were hewn, dragged and possibly floated to the site, or were merely left lying there in the wake of retreating glaciations; while, as for the still larger sarsen stones, as far as I'm aware there's no specific separate explanation for how they got to Stonehenge from the Marlborough Downs, which are by no means as far as Wales but still a significant drag away.
(17) Of special interest is that under the Yuanmou formation there occur glacial traces which prove beyond doubt the existence of glaciation over 3 million years ago.
(18) Analysis of the state average values in geological provinces shows the highest provincial areas for Ra are the Upper Coastal Plain, the glaciated Central Platform, and the Colorado plateau.
(19) Tasmania urged to scrap plan to open more world heritage area to tourism Read more “My concern is for the areas of rainforest and high-altitude vegetation in heavily glaciated [areas] where fire is not and has not been part of the ecology for millions and millions of years.” Law said pencil pines and fagus, Australia’s only winter-deciduous tree, are now in the path of large fires moving into the world heritage area.