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IT is perhaps less common than it was to find the phenomenon of regelation put forward as a complete explanation of skating. Very probably anyone with a scientific education will suspect that plastic flow in the solid ice plays an important part, and the following observations will, if they are accepted, serve to strengthen that opinion.
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Private communication from J. E. Sears, T. P. C. Low and C. S. d‘E. Stock.
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BELL, A. Theory of Skating. Nature 161, 391–392 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161391b0
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