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IN districts of high latitudes, it is often found that the central portions of fine suspended water-drops remain unfrozen, even though the temperature of the water is cooled down to 20° â¼ â30° C. This curious phenomenon can be explained by means of my theory of transformation stress; there is an outer spherical crust of ice and an inner water core, the freezing beginning from the outside and proceeding towards the centre. By applying this system of two spheres to the case of the freezing of water, we obtain for the mean intensity of pressure and for the depression of freezing point the following values: and
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HONDA, K. Formation of Frozen Rain-drops and the Condition of Ice-crusted Trees. Nature 164, 180 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164180a0
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