cryostat
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- noun
- /ˈkraɪəˌstæt/
- Specialized
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crioestato
- 16 m cerebellar-brain stem sections were cut sagittally using a cryostat (Leica).
- Optical cryostats
- continuous-flow cryostat
- cryostat maintains temperatures
So it's close cycled liquid liquid helium inside those cryostats.
- So it's close cycled liquid liquid helium inside those cryostats.
Examples
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Oxford Instruments has announced its new Spectrostat series of cryostats for materials characterization using electrical and magnetic probes.
Academic text (1997) -
The cryostat uses a two-stage mechanical cooler to achieve a minimum temperature of about 300 mK.
Academic text (2002) -
"You need a cryostat to keep the nitrogen liquefied.
Fiction book (2001) -
The cryostat can maintain a base temperature from 3.8 to 500 K with a stability of 0.1 K.
Academic text (1996) -
Briefly, the brains were frozen and coronal sections were cut in a cryostat.
Academic text (2018) -
The cryostat maintains temperatures from 1.6 to 320 K with a stability of 0.1 K.
Academic text (1996) -
The Optistat Bath is a helium bath cryostat that is suited for continuous low-temperature operation because of its efficient cryogen usage.
Academic text (1996) -
If this gross examination is insufficiently informative, I freeze a biopsy sliver in the cryostat—a frozen section machine.
Academic text (1993) -
Samples were sectioned in 20-m slices using a cryostat (CM-3050S, Leica) and collected in SuperFrozen Slides (VWR International).
Academic text (2018) -
A cryostat is essential for preserving biological samples at extremely low temperatures.
How Cold
Surface Forms
Morphology
cryostat = cryo + stat (transparent) = cryo + stat
The word is a straightforward technical combination of cryo- (cold) + -stat (device that maintains a condition), so the meaning 'device that maintains very low temperatures' is directly derived.
Etymology
The word cryostat comes from the part cryo- meaning 'cold' and the ending -stat, the same idea as in thermostat meaning 'to keep steady'. So a cryostat is a device that keeps things at very low, steady temperatures.