But its instruments employ special detectors that need to be chilled to fantastically low temperatures.
If it is too thin, which can happen at very low temperatures, the ski sticks.
They meet eight different military specification tests for high and low temperatures, vibration, altitude, dust and more.
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Previously, enthusiasts were relegated to bulky phase change systems to achieve radically low temperatures to maximize performance.
These low temperatures allow for a quick start-up, a more compact design, and less use of rare-earth materials.
Both require low temperatures and both depend on similar unusual behaviour by the electrons in the materials concerned.
As we explained previously, those methane hydrates clogging the uptake pipe need water and low temperatures to form.
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Freezing rain, low temperatures and strong thunderstorms were forecast elsewhere in the Midwest.
They will be out again on Saturday night and Sunday early hours as snow and low temperatures are predicted.
This is fuelled by liquid hydrogen, which is powerful but difficult to handle because of the low temperatures involved.
Made with collagen-rich pig skin, it is solid at low temperatures but melts into liquid when the dumpling is steamed.
The interferometer in Japan is being built underground and will be kept at extremely low temperatures to minimise stray vibrations.
It pasteurises by killing bacteria at low temperatures without compromising taste and nutritional value, allowing food to remain fresher for longer.
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But it said persistent bad weather and low temperatures meant only half survived, while other rare birds including goshawks have also struggled.
Snow and low temperatures caused a 3.8% drop in shopper numbers compared with March last year, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.
The latter process occurs at low temperatures when rocks rich in the minerals olivine and pyroxene react chemically with water, releasing methane.
First of all, the chip is based on superconducting, which means that the chip has to be supercooled to extremely low temperatures.
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The most unpleasant weather occurs in winter, when easterly winds from Russia may bring very low temperatures for several days on end.
Recent work has also demonstrated that at suitably low temperatures they can act as superconductors transmitting an electric current indefinitely, without power loss.
Pessimists retort, however, that these condensates exist only at extremely low temperatures.
My testing of that car was performed in winter conditions, in low temperatures (well below freezing) and often at highway speeds (occasionally, beyond).
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Another employs superconductors (which really do work only at very low temperatures) to try to siphon the hottest electrons out of a device.
The altitude, low temperatures and lack of sunlight (at least during the Antarctic winter) make the atmosphere at the pole ideal for star-gazing.
The atoms in question were stripped of their outer electrons and trapped in an electric field, in a vacuum, at extremely low temperatures.
Snow and low temperatures caused a 3.8% drop in footfall in Scottish shops compared to March last year, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.
Light snow has been reported in parts of the county and the effects of the past 24-hours of low temperatures are still being felt.
Getting these is tricky, but the researchers hope that cryopreservation that is, deep-freezing at extremely low temperatures will preserve them indefinitely, once they have been obtained.
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This would have involved a chain of Stirling units that use a cycle of compression and decompression in a fluid to get to low temperatures.
Even more appealing, this reaction occurs at low temperatures, generating hydrogen energy that is greater than the chemical energy stored in xylose and the polyphosphate.
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