How to Use cryostat in a Sentence

cryostat

noun
  • The steel beams will be used to build the cryostats.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
  • Assembling the vacuum vessel and cryostat around that coil system was a unique effort.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Dec. 2025
  • To provide electric power to the spinning cryostat and rotor magnets the prototype used a slip ring.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025
  • The next phase requires pumping the cryostat and vacuum vessel to create high-vacuum conditions.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
  • 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
  • For example, by working with metal foundries, LZ was able to use the cleanest titanium on Earth to build the central cylinder – or cryostat – that holds the liquid xenon.
    — Hugh Lippincott, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Each module will be housed in an insulating container called a cryostat that is nearly 500,000 cubic feet in size — roughly the same volume as five Olympic-size swimming pools.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Once completed, each cryostat will contain approximately 17,000 tons of liquid argon, nearly a mile underground.
    — 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
  • Completion of the inner portions of a DUNE cryostat requires more than 5,000 individual pieces.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The team revealed that to achieve leakproof liquid and vapor containment, in addition to adequate insulation and support, the DUNE cryostats are composed of several layers.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Probing matter, antimatter, and supernovae Once one of the cryostats is filled, external pumps will continuously recirculate the liquid argon through a purification system.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
  • 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.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026

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