cryostat
Sign in to savethumb|NASA's WISE infrared instrument is kept cold by a cryostat. The cryostat can be seen at the top of the spacecraft.
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It sits within the topics Containers, Cryogenics and Vacuum flasks.
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- laboratory equipment
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- Cryostats
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10 sectionsContents
- Types
- Closed-cycle cryostats
- Continuous-flow cryostats
- Bath cryostats
- Multistage cryostats
- Applications
- Magnetic resonance imaging and research magnet types
- Biological microtome type
- See also
- References
thumb|NASA's WISE infrared instrument is kept cold by a cryostat. The cryostat can be seen at the top of the spacecraft.
A cryostat (from cryo meaning cold and stat meaning stable) is a device used to maintain low cryogenic temperatures of samples or devices mounted within the cryostat. Low temperatures may be maintained within a cryostat by using various refrigeration methods, most commonly using cryogenic fluid bath such as liquid helium. Hence it is usually assembled into a vessel, similar in construction to a vacuum flask or Dewar. Cryostats have numerous applications within science, engineering, and medicine.
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