cryostat
noun
cryo·stat
ˈkrī-ə-ˌstat 
: an apparatus for maintaining a constant low temperature especially below 0°C
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To provide electric power to the spinning cryostat and rotor magnets the prototype used a slip ring.
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IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025
What Is the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment? Shining anode plane assemblies dominate this panorama of the 35-ton-capacity prototype cryostat for LBNF/DUNE.
—Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
The Christchurch company is a strong proponent of green hydrogen and currently manufactures hydrogen production systems and composite cryostat in New Zealand.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2021
Poloidal Field Coil #6 is shown here inside its cooling cryostat.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2020
All of this sensing and capturing power comes at a temperature cost, and the LSST camera’s sensor array had to be assembled and then placed inside a supercooling cryostat.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2020
Next comes the assembly of the camera: inserting the focal plane and cryostat into the camera body, adding the world's largest optical lens, shutter and filter exchange system.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Sep. 2020
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IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025
What Is the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment? Shining anode plane assemblies dominate this panorama of the 35-ton-capacity prototype cryostat for LBNF/DUNE.
—Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
The Christchurch company is a strong proponent of green hydrogen and currently manufactures hydrogen production systems and composite cryostat in New Zealand.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2021
Poloidal Field Coil #6 is shown here inside its cooling cryostat.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2020
All of this sensing and capturing power comes at a temperature cost, and the LSST camera’s sensor array had to be assembled and then placed inside a supercooling cryostat.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2020
Next comes the assembly of the camera: inserting the focal plane and cryostat into the camera body, adding the world's largest optical lens, shutter and filter exchange system.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Sep. 2020
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cryostat
noun
cryo·stat
ˈkrī-ə-ˌstat
: an apparatus for maintaining a constant low temperature especially below 0°C (as by means of liquid helium)
especially
: one containing a microtome for obtaining sections of frozen tissue
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