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glacial [gla´sh'l]
designating a highly pure state of certain acids, such as acetic acid, so called because the freezing point is only slightly below room temperature.
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In addition to those mentioned above, appendixes provide supplementary information on tropical cyclones and storms; tornadoes; laws, regulations, and international agreements; the geologic timescale; glacials and integlacials, scientific instrument units and conversions, and disaster and discovery chronologies.
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He declared with particular reference to the Permian glacials present in the tropics of India and Africa, that 'it will now be necessary to explain not only the former presence of the great ice sheet in the tropics but marked alternations of seasons too.
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A combination of factors probably contributed to this generalised relationship: the abundance of mass-flowering myrtaceous trees, aridity during past glacials which may have removed specialists from the system, and the sharing of nectar sources with bats.
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