Water as a Solid.
We usually think of minerals as solid things, such as metals and rocks and jewels and various chemical salts. But when we consider the matter a little we see that all these things if melted by strong heat are minerals still, only they are now in a fluid instead of a solid state. The difference between these minerals and water is that water gets fluid at a lower temperature than they do, and, like quicksilver, stays melted at ordinary living heat. But in those old ice ages, which, one after another, have swept now over the northern and now over the southern hemisphere, bringing ruin and desolation, the natural and common condition of water was that of a solid—ice—aa it largely is today out of doors in winter when not kept fused by the stored up heat of the soil and rocks, or melted by the sun.—T. Mitchell Prudden in Harper's.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3004, 20 June 1893, Page 4
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155Water as a Solid. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3004, 20 June 1893, Page 4
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