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

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  • The solid hydrogen, called a cryogen, was expected to last about 10 months -- the mission launched in December 2009.
  • Their idea would require using excess energy from a plant to run a unit producing liquid nitrogen and oxygen - or 'cryogen'.
  • It's still in orbit but its cryogen has run out so it can no longer measure spectra, but can still take images with precision that would rival a 30-meter telescope on Earth.
  • The temperature of production of the cryohydrate is identical with the lowest temperature which can be produced on employing a mixture of ice and the salt as a freezing mixture...
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