Definition of cryogen in English:
cryogen
noun ˈkrʌɪə(ʊ)dʒ(ə)nˈkraɪədʒən
A substance used to produce very low temperatures.
Example sentencesExamples
- Accelerators with cryogenics or superconducting magnets use distribution boxes to supply cryogens for the cold devices.
- The material combination of high strength, good toughness, and weldability should prompt designers to specify it for welded pressure vessels for the storage of cryogens.
- As the heat from the RF frequency stimulates the collagen, a cryogen spray is used to cool the outer layer of skin to tighten it up, and to prevent any burning effect.
- The first cryogens were liquid air and compressed carbon dioxide snow.
- After all, a superconductor that is both easy to process and can be cooled using electrical refrigerators, rather than messy cryogens, would find many applications.
- This approach preserves native structure by rapidly freezing the specimen in a thin aqueous layer by plunging into cryogen, without the use of fixatives or stains.
- They also recommended that a prototype using hydrogen as a combined cryogen and form of energy transport be designed, built and tested at one of the national laboratories.
- A cryogen spray simultaneously cools the skin's surface before, during and after each radio frequency pulse to further protect the epidermis.