cryogenic

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Recent Examples on the Web However, hydrogen takes up a lot of room for the available energy compared to aviation fuel, and the only practical way to handle it is as a cryogenic liquid cooled to below -253 °C (-423 °F). David Szondy, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2024 Where Thanga’s group would aim to actively cool the ark, Hagedorn and the Smithsonian team have envisioned a repository that uses natural features of the moon to keep the samples cryogenic. Ayurella Horn-Muller Syris Valentine, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2024 The decision came as a result of a wrongful death lawsuit brought by couples whose frozen embryos were destroyed at a fertility clinic in December 2020 when a patient entered a cryogenic nursery storage unit and removed several embryos. Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024 At that point, Ramsey said NASA will likely roll the rocket, without the Orion spacecraft on top, out to the launch pad for a tanking test, which will involve loading cryogenic propellants into the core stage and upper stage. Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 25 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for cryogenic 
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Adjective
  • After 72 days stranded, they were finally rescued, but only 16 people survived the dangerous conditions, including subzero temperatures, avalanches, and starvation.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • So, when more than a million Ukrainians took to the streets in 2013-2014, spending months outdoors in subzero temperatures and often under brutal police attack to protest, this was not — in Putin’s view — an expression of popular will, but a coup d’etat orchestrated by the CIA.
    Marc Champion, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2024
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  • Its infrared sensors, its ultracold location in space, and its sunshield — which blocks the light of the sun, moon and Earth — are uniquely suited to resolve the first galaxies and their stars.
    Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Their experiments involved shooting photons through a cloud of ultracold rubidium atoms and measuring the resulting degree of atomic excitation.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2024
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  • Fixture Rearrangement But most MLS markets more hospitable to playing through some of the winter than Denmark. Of MLS’ 30 clubs next season, only 16 play in environments where the average low temperatures are freezing or below in January.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Avoid late season pruning and fertilizer applications, which promote new growth that will not have time to harden off before freezing temperatures arrive.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024
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  • Alongside a dash of arctic blue or deep coral shadow just above the lash line, feathery falsies were applied to the outer corners of the eyes, creating a mystical effect at Ganni.
    Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Instead, some 416,000 years ago, the arctic island emerged from its perpetual winter, exhibiting a milder arctic ecosystem long enough to sustain plants, small trees, flowers, and insects.
    Carly Miller, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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  • Ernest Shackleton fascinates the English-speaking world like no other polar explorer, perhaps no other explorer period, and he’s inspired many books, several feature films and documentaries and countless leadership seminars.
    Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Prior to the Endurance voyage, Shackleton had established himself as a polar explorer after a career in the merchant navy.
    Jack Guy, CNN, 10 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Pan said after his race on Wednesday that American and Australian swimmers had been icy toward him.
    Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The combination of human pressures and an icier coast may have eventually driven blue whales offshore.
    Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
Adjective
  • Progress toward health coverage parity, in which mental health issues are covered in the same way as physical health issues, has been glacial, even as America's mental health crisis continues to soar.
    Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The picturesque old Coast Guard station still sits atop the glacial bluffs, allowing for a spectacular view down upon the Nauset Spit barrier system and bay.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2024
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  • On cold days, its extra length and 650-fill-power down feel like a warm hug.
    Abigail Barronian, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
  • On our return to The Ravel after every excursion, we are greeted by a welcome party of staff holding out a cold towel and a glass of buck's fizz.
    James Rampton, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024

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