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DR. PETTERSON'S memoir is a most valuable contribution to our knowledge of the natural history of the waters of the globe. Every reader of Arctic voyages must be familiar with the variety of names attached to the different kinds of ice met with in these regions, such as “pack-ice,” “bay-ice,” “brash-ice,” and the like. To one who has never seen them, the names convey very little information either of their appearance or of their mode of formation. Dr. Petterson's paper explains in a satisfactory and very remarkable manner the nature of the difference between the different kinds of ice.
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"On the Properties of Water and Ice." By Otto Petterson . Publication of the Vega Expedition. (Stockholm, 1883.)
"An Account of the Arctic Regions," Edinburgh, 1820, vol. i. p. 230.
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BUCHANAN, J. On the Properties of Water and Ice 1 . Nature 28, 417–419 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028417b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/028417b0
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