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PHYSIOGRAPHERS lead us to believe that the earth is defended from a profound glaciation, cumulative from year to year, by the law that water is heaviest at a temperature of four degrees above centigrade zero. If the main cause lies here, it is desirable that this measure should have its peculiar power set forth with more precision than has been customary.
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CROFT, W. The Maximum Density of Water. Nature 91, 505 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091505c0
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