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Infrigidation

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refrigerationnounThe process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it.

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refrigerationnounThe process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it.
frostnounA cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
frigidizationnounThe process of making something frigid.
frigefactionnoun(obsolete, rare) The act of making cold; cooling.
chillingCausing mild fear.
congelationnounThe act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.
glaciationnounThe process of covering with a glacier, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena; an ice age
freezingnoun(countable and uncountable) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
congealationnounObsolete form of congelation. [The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.]
congealmentnounThe act of congealing.
frigoricnounA hypothetical fluid medium of cold, in analogy to caloric.
regelationnounThe fusion of two pieces of ice by pressure (which lowers its freezing point).
unfreezingnounThe process of something being unfrozen.
thawnounThe melting of ice, snow, or other frozen or congealed matter; the transformation of ice or the like into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost
gelationnounThe formation of a gel, especially from a sol.
cryodestructionnoun(medicine) The surgical destruction of tissues using cold.
cryofacialnoun(neologism) A facial skin treatment in which a person's skin is rapidly cooled using liquid nitrogen.
cryogenynoun(dated) cryogenics
cryogenesisnounThe geologic processes that create permafrost.
cryo-processnounThe process or use of cryogenic freezing.

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