Word: ram
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the course in N. H. 16, Tuesday evening, Mr. Wood '91, described some experiments which he made during the recess on the melting of ice under pressure. The trial was made with a hydraulic ram crushing the ice in a steel cylinder. The ice was not liquefied by a pressure of twelve tons to the square inch, equal to sixteen hundred atmospheres or to the weight of a mass of ice twelve miles thick. A series of experiments on the subject will be carried...