Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word CRYOGEN
CRYOGEN
Definitions of CRYOGEN
- (physics) a cryogenic liquid (that boils below about -160°C) used as a refrigerant
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using CRYOGEN in a Sentence
- Oxygen is a moderate cryogen as air will not liquefy against a liquid oxygen tank, so it is possible to store LOX briefly in a rocket without excessive insulation.
- By cooling the baffle, either with a cryogen such as a dry ice mixture, or by use of an electrically driven Peltier element, oil vapour molecules that strike the baffle vanes will condense and thus be removed from the pumped cavity.
- The grid is then plunged into a cryogen (typically liquid ethane) so efficiently such that water molecules do not have time to rearrange into a crystalline lattice.
- The sorption pump is a vacuum pump that creates a vacuum by adsorbing molecules on a very porous material like molecular sieve which is cooled by a cryogen, typically liquid nitrogen.
- Spontaneous quenches are uncommon, but a quench also may be triggered by an equipment malfunction, an improper cryogen fill technique, contaminants inside the cryostat, or extreme magnetic or vibrational disturbances.
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