Abstract. The flexural strength of ice surfaces bonded by freezing, termed freeze bond, was studied performing four-point bending tests freshwater S2 columnar-grained samples in the laboratory. were prepared milling two pieces, wetting with water varying salinity, bringing these together, and then letting them under a compressive stress about 4 kPa. salinity used for to generate bond varied fro...

Hatchlings of the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta marginata) are unique as the only reptile and highest vertebrate life form known to tolerate the natural freezing of extracellular body fluids during winter hibernation. Turtles survived frequent exposures to temperatures as low as -6 degrees C to -8 degrees C in their shallow terrestrial nests over the 1987-1988 winter. Hatchlings collected in ...

Glycoproteins were isolated from the blood sera of the Antarctic fishes Tremafomus borchgrevinki and Dissostichus mawsoni. Some of these glycoproteins have the unique property of depressing the freezing point of water more than expected on the basis of the number of particles present in solution and are termed active glycoproteins. These freezing point-depressing glycoproteins depress the freez...

We use computer simulations to test the freezing-point scaling relationship between equilibrium transport coefficients (self-diffusivity, viscosity) and thermodynamic parameters for soft sphere fluids. The fluid particles interact via the inverse-power potential (IPP), and the particle softness is changed by modifying the exponent of the distance-dependent potential term. In the case of IPP flu...