cryostat
noun
cryo·stat
ˈkrī-ə-ˌstat 
: an apparatus for maintaining a constant low temperature especially below 0°C
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The Christchurch company is a strong proponent of green hydrogen and currently manufactures hydrogen production systems and composite cryostat in New Zealand.
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Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2021
The cryostat parts alone have taken 10 years to build, first in ITER partner India and then on site.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2020
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
This will take place inside a cryostat, which is the chamber that will hold the entire reactor.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 July 2020
On May 26, a crane slowly lifted the base of the cryostat from its support frame to a height of 24 meters, according to World Nuclear News.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2020
The section recently installed—the cryostat base and lower cylinder—paves the way for the installation of the tokamak, the technology design chosen to house the powerful magnetic field that will encase the ultra-hot plasma fusion core.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2020
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Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2021
The cryostat parts alone have taken 10 years to build, first in ITER partner India and then on site.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2020
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
This will take place inside a cryostat, which is the chamber that will hold the entire reactor.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 July 2020
On May 26, a crane slowly lifted the base of the cryostat from its support frame to a height of 24 meters, according to World Nuclear News.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2020
The section recently installed—the cryostat base and lower cylinder—paves the way for the installation of the tokamak, the technology design chosen to house the powerful magnetic field that will encase the ultra-hot plasma fusion core.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2020
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1900, in the meaning defined above
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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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