How to Use cryogenic in a Sentence
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The rocket's liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen must be kept at cryogenic temperatures for the engine to work.
— Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 10 July 2024 -
The study’s results also shed some light onto what such waves might be like—and in bad news for prospective cryogenic surfers, the waves on Titan would be pretty underwhelming.
— Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 20 June 2024 -
In addition, the coolant is helium gas, which is chemically neutral and always remains a gas under all temperatures outside the cryogenic realm.
— David Szondy, New Atlas, 24 July 2024 -
So the two-year starter spent some time last week in OSU’s cryogenic chamber.
— Nathan Baird, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2019 -
The vial is then stored for safekeepingin a cryogenic tank.
— Katherine Kornei, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2016 -
But even accepting the premise of the pseudoscience, what sort of world would a cryogenic client wake up in.
— Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 26 Dec. 2017 -
And to keep his one-of-a-kind pieces intact, the singer has created a very unique cryogenic closet.
— Katie Intner, PEOPLE.com, 21 Oct. 2019 -
Are the advantages enough to overcome the cost of cryogenic cooling?
— Anna Herr, IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024 -
The development teams are also still working on the cryogenic arms that link the pad and the rocket at the launch site.
— Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Nov. 2020 -
By then all the trucks that could move cryogenic liquids, and the people who could drive them, had gone to Florida.
— Tory Bruno, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2022 -
Unlike Cruise, Ford, who is 80, does not appear to have spent any time in a cryogenic chamber between this film and the last.
— Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023 -
The most recent involved a large leak of the cryogenic liquid hydrogen on one of the supply lines.
— Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2022 -
For starters, the baby-faced Beck, at 47, looked like he'd been recently released from a late '90s cryogenic sleep.
— Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2017 -
Their work had to be done on the ground, but their tests had to assess how the telescope would work in deep space at cryogenic temperatures.
— IEEE Spectrum, 6 July 2022 -
This means the cryogenic modules could jam or freeze together.
— Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2021 -
The culprit was what is known as the bleed system, which feeds cryogenic propellant from the core stage into the four RS-25 engines at its base.
— Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022 -
Kmart has a pantry food section and a Mini Melts cryogenic ice cream vending machine.
— Anne Kadet, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017 -
There’s time to take in details: the gleam of the boosters, painted white to keep the cryogenic gas inside cool; the rippling orange taper of the 5,500-degree-F exhaust.
— Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2018 -
Crews made sure the rocket was safe and drained its cryogenic fuels once the launch was officially canceled.
— David Williams, CNN, 29 Aug. 2020 -
But the challenges of dealing with cryogenic liquids was offset by the benefits.
— Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2018 -
He was put back into a cryogenic slumber, this time under the watchful eye of Grace Mallory (Laila Robins).
— Nick Romano, EW.com, 8 July 2022 -
How much cryogenic methane and liquid oxygen will boil off in orbit?
— Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023 -
This was done for a variety of reasons, most of which have to do with the difficulty of handling cryogenic liquids.
— Eric Berger & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 20 July 2019 -
Anything that’s stored and moved around in the tunnels would be kept at cryogenic temperatures of about minus-292 degrees Fahrenheit.
— Ethan Kispert, The Arizona Republic, 19 Mar. 2021 -
The ship won’t be refueled at the port, though, but will meet up with a barge offshore, as the safety measures needed around LNG and its cryogenic state are numerous.
— Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2021 -
During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, several cryogenic firms offered the service free to American troops.
— Emma Bubola, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023 -
Instead of an ugly fence, there might be an ugly fence with massive tanks of cryogenic liquid behind it.
— Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2020 -
The cryogenic sperm banks that freeze the specimen require extensive screening and testing for all donors.
— Sophie Strosberg, Parents, 26 Oct. 2023 -
Their case is the first to go to a jury, but hundreds of other people also have sued the clinic and Chart Industries Inc., which made the cryogenic tank where the specimens were stored.
— NBC News, 11 June 2021 -
The rocket's interim cryogenic propulsion stage and boosters were not.
— Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Apr. 2022
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