Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mixture that has the property of producing a sufficient degree of cold—that is, a sufficiently rapid absorption of heat—to freeze liquids.
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Examples
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He pondered over the problem; then made a dormouse completely wet over, and placed it in the freezing-mixture.
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Albert Leffingwell 1880
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The thing that is palpably hot, burning, wilt thou prove it, by syllogism, to be a freezing-mixture?
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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