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1899 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 21 1065 There is a cryogenic laboratory at Leyden; it is not hard to foresee the establishment of a chair of cryogenics at some enterprising university.

1958 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 2 Oct. 81/2 Research into He³ Cryogenics being carried out in the Clarendon Laboratory.

1962 Business Week 16 June 72/1 Cryobiology is the marriage of two separate sciences: cryogenics, or extreme low-temperature physics, and biology.

1984 Times 31 May 17/7 My six-year-old son shows no interest in tribology, cryogenics or genetic engineering.

2007 I. Müller Hist. Thermodynamics vi. 165 The science of cryogenics, whose objective it is to reach cold temperatures.

1960 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 7 Jan. a6/1 A new branch of science called cryogenics, which is concerned with ultra cold temperatures and their effects upon things, including live things. Life processes can be suspended and familiar substances take on unpredictable properties.]

1967 Times 3 June 11/5 The almost unlimited market offered by cryogenics, a science which enables a man to pay for the freezing of his body immediately upon death, to be followed by storage and subsequent revival as soon as a remedy for the cause of death has been discovered.

1990 A. Steele Clarke County, Space 73 Biostasis for space travel had been achieved not by cryogenics..but through psychoactive drugs.

2003 B. McKibben Enough (U.K. ed.) iii. 159 In its early days, cryogenics was more or less a joke. Reports that Walt Disney had been iced turned out to be urban legend.