cryostat
noun
cryo·stat
ˈkrī-ə-ˌstat 
: an apparatus for maintaining a constant low temperature especially below 0°C
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Going underground Mark Thomson, CERN director general, revealed that CERN is supplying prototype detectors and giant cryostats for DUNE, while in parallel, US labs are providing superconducting magnets for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
Armed with artificial lights, Marco sat his sister at a desk across from a golden cryostat, which her colleagues use to freeze detectors to temperatures colder than the vacuum of space to hunt for subatomic particles zipping by.
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
To provide electric power to the spinning cryostat and rotor magnets the prototype used a slip ring.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025
What Is the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment? Shining anode plane assemblies dominate this panorama of the 35-ton-capacity prototype cryostat for LBNF/DUNE.
—Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
All of these objects, including the central detector, the cryostat and the outer detector, live in a large water tank nearly a mile underground.
—Hugh Lippincott, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2023
The Christchurch company is a strong proponent of green hydrogen and currently manufactures hydrogen production systems and composite cryostat in New Zealand.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2021
Poloidal Field Coil #6 is shown here inside its cooling cryostat.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2020
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
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
Armed with artificial lights, Marco sat his sister at a desk across from a golden cryostat, which her colleagues use to freeze detectors to temperatures colder than the vacuum of space to hunt for subatomic particles zipping by.
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
To provide electric power to the spinning cryostat and rotor magnets the prototype used a slip ring.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025
What Is the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment? Shining anode plane assemblies dominate this panorama of the 35-ton-capacity prototype cryostat for LBNF/DUNE.
—Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
All of these objects, including the central detector, the cryostat and the outer detector, live in a large water tank nearly a mile underground.
—Hugh Lippincott, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2023
The Christchurch company is a strong proponent of green hydrogen and currently manufactures hydrogen production systems and composite cryostat in New Zealand.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2021
Poloidal Field Coil #6 is shown here inside its cooling cryostat.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2020
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
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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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