(at very low temperatures)
71Cryonics — For the study of the production of very low temperatures, see Cryogenics. Technicians prepare a patient for cryopreservation. Cryonics (from Greek kryos meaning icy cold) is the low temperature preservation of humans and animals who can no longer …
72Single-stage-to-orbit — The VentureStar was a proposed SSTO spaceplane. A single stage to orbit (or SSTO) vehicle reaches orbit from the surface of a body without jettisoning hardware, expending only propellants and fluids. The term usually, but not exclusively, refers… …
73Polar stratospheric cloud — Antarctic stratospheric cloud (nacreous clouds) Abbreviation PSC Altitude 15,000–25,000 m (50,000–80,000 ft) …
74Single-molecule magnet — Single molecule magnets or SMMs are a class of metalorganic compounds, that show superparamagnetic behavior below a certain blocking temperature at the molecular scale. In this temperature range, SMMs exhibit magnetic hysteresis of purely… …
75launch vehicle — Aerospace. a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a space probe into space. [1955 1960] * * * Rocket system that boosts a spacecraft into Earth orbit or beyond Earth s gravitational pull. A wide variety of launch vehicles …
76Nobel Prize winners by year (2001-10) — ▪ Table Nobel Prize winners by year (2001–10) year category name country* achievement literary area 2001 chemistry Knowles, William S. U.S. work on chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions chemistry Noyori Ryoji (Noyori Ryōji) Japan work on… …
77Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — Infobox Scientist box width = 300px name = H. Kamerlingh Onnes image size = 200px caption = Heike Kamerlingh Onnes birth date = birth date|1853|9|21|df=y birth place = Groningen, Netherlands death date = nowrap|death date and… …
78Curie's law — In a paramagnetic material the magnetization of the material is (approximately) directly proportional to an applied magnetic field. However, if the material is heated, this proportionality is reduced: for a fixed value of the field, the… …
79Terra Nova Expedition — Scott s party at the South Pole, 18 January 1912. L to R: (standing) Oates, Scott, Wilson; (seated) Bowers, Edgar Evans The Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1912), officially the British Antarc …
80comet — cometary /kom i ter ee/, cometic /keuh met ik/, cometical, adj. cometlike, adj. /kom it/, n. Astron. a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and… …
