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ˈkraɪ ə dʒən, -ˌdʒɛncryo·gen

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  1. cryogennoun

    a liquid that boils at below -160 C and is used as a refrigerant

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  1. cryogennoun

    a cryogenic liquid (that boils below about -160°C) used as a refrigerant

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  1. cryogen

    In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures. The 13th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration (held in Washington DC in 1971) endorsed a universal definition of "cryogenics" and "cryogenic" by accepting a threshold of 120 K (or –153 °C) to distinguish these terms from the conventional refrigeration. This is a logical dividing line, since the normal boiling points of the so-called permanent gases (such as helium, hydrogen, neon, nitrogen, oxygen, and normal air) lie below 120K while the Freon refrigerants, hydrocarbons, and other common refrigerants have boiling points above 120K. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology considers the field of cryogenics as that involving temperatures below -153 Celsius (120K; -243.4 Fahrenheit) Discovery of superconducting materials with critical temperatures significantly above the boiling point of nitrogen has provided new interest in reliable, low cost methods of producing high temperature cryogenic refrigeration. The term "high temperature cryogenic" describes temperatures ranging from above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen, −195.79 °C (77.36 K; −320.42 °F), up to −50 °C (223 K; −58 °F).Cryogenicists use the Kelvin or Rankine temperature scale, both of which measure from absolute zero, rather than more usual scales such as Celsius which measures from the freezing point of water at sea level or Fahrenheit which measures from the freezing point of a particular brine solution at sea level.

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  1. cryogen

    A cryogen is a substance used to generate very low temperatures, often in a liquid form. Examples of cryogens include liquid nitrogen and liquid helium. They are commonly used in applications such as medical research, cryotherapy, clinical laboratory procedures, and cooling superconducting magnets.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cryogen in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cryogen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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