We think the sublimating nitrogen rips tiny grain-sized particles of methane ice, which carry up into the atmosphere and settle closer to the mountains.
Thus understanding, strictly speaking, has been denied to woman; and instinct, sublimated into wit and cunning, for the purposes of life, has been substituted in its stead.
This is freezer burn, and it happens because ice in the frozen food sublimates — that is, the water changes directly from a solid to a gas rather than first melting and then evaporating.