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THIS method has for its basis the varying alteration in the electro-conductivity of sea water in the neighbourhood of melting ice. The conductivity of such water is materially reduced, and is dependent on two separate factors: first, the fall in temperature, and, secondly, the dilution of sea water of high electro-conductivity with water derived from glacier ice of comparatively negligible conductivity.
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COPLANS, M. A Method for the Detection of the Proximity of Ice at Sea. Nature 89, 295 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089295a0
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