cryogenic
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8.2
- adjective
- /ˌkraɪəʊˈdʒɛnɪk/
- Specialized
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criogénico
- The cryogenic chamber was essential for safely storing liquid gases at extremely low temperatures.
- cryogenic temperatures
- cryogenic refrigeration
- cryogenic system
The downside is that they need to be cooled with expensive cryogenic systems.
- The downside is that they need to be cooled with expensive cryogenic systems.
- So you go to very hot through, so more or less say normal temperatures all the way to cryogenic temperatures.
- It has a beryllium outer layer and then it has its normal solid solid cryogenic deuterium and tritium, and then a hollow centre filled with gas as well.
- You Maybe it's just a matter of marketing cryogenic pigeons coming soon to a power line near you.
Examples
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Just freeze him till we can get him into the cryogenic chamber.
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The clinical infertility lab was a huge room with large incubators, centrifuges, and modern cryogenic units.
Fiction book (1991) -
And when you fill it with the cryogenic hydrogen, everything contracts.
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Mind you, this cryogenic stuff isn't cheap.
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Planning on bringing a live passenger back to Epsilon, we left all the cryogenic stuff back in the medical bay.
Fiction book (1998) -
Subject was 35 years old at time of initial cryogenic immersion.
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Our scientists finally figured out how to revive people from cryogenic sleep.
Fiction book (2002) -
The cryogenic protection pod is designed to put you into a deep sleep for the duration of your 3-day return journey back to Earth.
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Along with its simpler composition, it has been considered a promising alloy for cryogenic engineering.
Academic text (2018) -
After his wife contracted a rare disease... ...Macgregor's Syndrome... ...he hoped to freeze her in a cryogenic sleep untiI he could find a cure.
Synonyms
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4.1
Very cold, like ice or freezing air
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1.3
Very cold, at or below freezing
Much colder than normal, for example in special freezers or very cold weather
So cold that water turns to ice
Colder than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit
How Cold
Surface Forms
Morphology
cryogenic = cryogen (semi-transparent) = cryo + gen + ic
Built from the technical base 'cryogen' + the adjective-forming suffix '-ic'; the relation to 'very low temperatures' is regular but relies on specialist combining forms.
Etymology
Cryogenic comes from Greek parts cryo- meaning 'very cold', like ice, and -genic meaning 'to produce' or 'create', like in the word 'generate'. So, cryogenic describes things or processes that make or need 'very cold' conditions, which is why the word is used for cold storage, fuels, and scientific work.