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Definition: Low Temperature |
Low TemperatureNoun1. The absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mechanical Engineering | Generally below 0 degree C. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Cryogenics is the study of low temperatures or the production of the same, and is often confused with cryobiology, the study of the effect of low temperatures on organisms, or the study of cryopreservation. Likewise, cryonics is the nascent study of the cryopreservation of the human body, is not an established science like cryogenics and is generally viewed with skepticism by most scientists and doctors today.
Liquid gases, such as liquid nitrogen and liquid helium, are used in many cryogenic applications. These gases are held in special containers known as Dewar flasks. Dewar flasks are named after their inventor, James Dewar, the man who first liquified hydrogen. Everday vacuum flasks are a Dewar flask fitted in a protective casing.
Leiden,Netherlands is sometimes called "The Coldest Place on Earth", because of the revolutions in cryogenics that happened there. Some of these were the discovery of superconductivity by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes, and the solidification of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes' pupil, Willem Hendrik Keesom.
The study of superconductivity is called cryoelectronics or cryolectronics. The utilization of these sciences is called cryotronics.
See also:
- absolute zero
- refrigeration
- superfluidity
- superconductivity
- quantum hydrodynamics
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Synonyms: Low TemperatureSynonyms: cold (n), coldness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: hotness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Low Temperature |
| English words defined with "low temperature": Anticyclonic storm ♦ constantan, Crock Pot ♦ Eureka ♦ ice machine ♦ Landau, Lev Davidovich Landau ♦ muffle ♦ simmer, soft solder. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "low temperature": automatic sprinkler ♦ bottom fermentation beer, bottom fermented beer ♦ chilled dynamite, cold box, Cold Temperature CO, cryofixation, cryogenic materials ♦ Electromagnetic Energy ♦ Freeze Drying, Freeze Etching, Freeze Substitution ♦ gas separation unit ♦ Hunt and Douglas process, hypothermy ♦ Liquefied natural gas, low fermentation beer, low-temperature carbonization, Lyster process ♦ mouldable refractory ♦ nevus araneosus, nevus araneus ♦ plastic refractory, premier jus ♦ roasting and reaction process ♦ Solar Thermal Systems, superconductor. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Canada: Low Temperature Gas (1963) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Figure 23. Display demonstrating the amount of dissolved gased in sea water. Each glass cube is 1 decimeter cubed in volume. The glass bulbs represent the amount of dissolved quantities of O2, N, and CO2 in the first two at low temperature and high temperature respectively, while the third cube represents the total amount of CO2, both dissolved and in other chemical compounds. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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Expression using "low temperature": low temperature injury. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "low temperature"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 低溫 (relatively low temperature). (various references) | |
Danish | lavtemperatur. (various references) | |
Dutch | lage temperatuur. (various references) | |
Finnish | matala lämpötila. (various references) | |
French | basse température. (various references) | |
German | Tieftemperatur, tiefe Temperatur, NT (normal temperature), Niedrigtemperatur. (various references) | |
Greek | όταν η αρχική δομή είναι λεπτομερής και προέρχεται από πλήρη ωστενιτοποίηση σε αρκετά χαμηλή θερμοκρασία είναι δυνατό να σχηματισθεί μια (when the initial structure is a fine one resulting from complete austenitizing at a fairly low temperature), μόνον οι χρωμονικελιούχοι ωστενιτικοί χάλυβες παρουσιάζουν συνεκτικότητα σε ακόμη χαμηλότερες θερμοκρασίες (the low temperature toughness of a 9% Ni steel at even lower temperatures than l96ÖC is only exceeded by that of austenitic chromium-nickel steels), η σκληρότητα απότομης ψύξης των χαλύβων μπορεί να ελαττωθεί με αναθέρμανση,την "επαναφορά" σε θερμοκρασία σχετικά χαμηλή (a hard quenched steel can be softened by reheating or "tempering" at a relatively low temperature), η τροποποίηση μπορεί να επιταχυνθεί με θέρμανση σε σχετικά χαμηλή θερμοκρασία κατώτερη ή ίση των 25° C,επεξεργασία γνωστή ως "τεχνική γήρανσ (the changes can be accelerated by heating to a relatively low temperature (250.DEG.C); this treatment is known as "artificial ageing"), ασθένεια οφειλόμενη στο ψύχος (cold injury, low temperature injury), οικιακό ψυγείο,χωρίς θαλάμους χαμηλής θερμοκρασίας (household refrigerator without low temperature compartments), οικιακό ψυγείο με θαλάμους χαμηλής θερμοκρασίας άνευ αστέρων (household refrigerator with no-star low temperature compartments), οικιακό ψυγείο με θαλάμους χαμηλής θερμοκρασίας *** αστέρων (household refrigerator with low temperature compartments ***), οικιακό ψυγείο με θαλάμους χαμηλής θερμοκρασίας ** αστέρων (household refrigerator with low temperature compartments **), οικιακό ψυγείο με θαλάμους χαμηλής θερμοκρασίας * αστέρα (household refrigerator with low temperature compartments *), διατάραξη λόγω ψύχους (cold injury, low temperature injury). (various references) | |
Italian | bassa temperatura. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 低温 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ていお" (bass, fixed temperature, low tone, low voice, rest). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owlay emperaturetay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | baixa temperatura (freeze, frost). (various references) | |
Romanian | temperaturã scãzutã, temperaturã joasã. (various references) | |
Russian | низкая температура. (various references) | |
Spanish | baja temperatura. (various references) | |
Swedish | lågtemperatur. (various references) | |
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"Low Temperature" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lowtemperature. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-l-m-o-p-r-r-t-t-u-w" | |
-3 letters: temperature. | |
-4 letters: petrolatum. | |
-5 letters: aerometer, epaulette, meltwater, outerwear, petroleum, poulterer, prelature, premature, ratemeter, reoperate, rotameter, temperate, trumpeter. | |
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