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- adjective Very
cold ; having an extreme cold.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But do not do supercold temps: That causes the baby to shiver and raise the temperature more than is helpful to fight infection, as shivering generates unneeded heat.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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But do not do supercold temps: That causes the baby to shiver and raise the temperature more than is helpful to fight infection, as shivering generates unneeded heat.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Understanding of this phenomenon will come from experiments conducted in the areas of atomic physics (supercold atoms) and condensed matter (electrons in quantum dots).
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But do not do supercold temps: That causes the baby to shiver and raise the temperature more than is helpful to fight infection, as shivering generates unneeded heat.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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But do not do supercold temps: That causes the baby to shiver and raise the temperature more than is helpful to fight infection, as shivering generates unneeded heat.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Approximately 535,000 gallons of supercold liquid oxygen (LOX, minus 298 deg F) and liquid hydrogen (LH2, minus 423 deg F ) are loaded from storage tanks around the pad to the shuttles mobile launch platform and is nearly complete as of 7 AM.
Tweeters and Atlantis Ready for Launch | Universe Today 2009
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Maris and Wei Guo, a doctoral student, took advantage of the bubbles that form around electrons in supercold liquid helium.
Researchers Catch Motion of a Single Electron on Video | Impact Lab 2007
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UC Berkeley physicist Richard Packard and grad student Emile Hoskinson managed to hear the quantum vibrations, known as quantum whistles, of a supercold condensed fluid as it's pushed through an array of tiny holes 1,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.
Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives 2005
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Maris and Wei Guo, a doctoral student, took advantage of the bubbles that form around electrons in supercold liquid helium.
Researchers Catch Motion of a Single Electron on Video | Impact Lab 2007
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But supercold temperatures do strange things with physics.
01.04 M-mv 2004
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