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Answer for the clue "Requiring low temperatures ", 9 letters:
cryogenic

Word definitions for cryogenic in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to very low temperatures

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1902, from cryogen "freezing mixture" (1875), from cryo- "freezing" + -genic "having to do with production" (see genus ). Related: Cryogenics (1958).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cryogenic was an Australian thrash metal / death metal band formed in 1992 in Wetherill Park , a suburb of Sydney , Australia .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. of, relating to, or performed at low temperatures

Usage examples of cryogenic.

People traveled between worlds in the Pax -- millionaires mostly, businesspeople and adventurers willing to spend months in cryogenic sleep and years of time-debt traveling by Mercantilus transport between the stars, smug in their cruciform certainty that job and home and family would be waiting in their steady-state Christian universe when they returned -- but it was rare, and no one traveled between worlds without money and Pax permission.

First we sedate, using conventional cryogenic gasses, but then we flush it all out using a high-density energy plasma that is slightly altered Flux energy, and that stuff maintains the suspension for a sufficient time to digitize the subject.

Most of its bulk consisted of insulated tankage filled to capacity with cryogenic hydrogen.

Human beings like the old poet in the tower might possibly survive from pre-Hegira days -- Poulsen treatments and cryogenic storage could theoretically account for that -- but artifacts of wood and wire and ivory had little chance of making that long voyage through time and space.

Noting that Figure 6 is very much simplified and does not show pumps, valves, controls, and ancillaries or accessories, the power system operates as follows: Liquid hydrogen and oxygen from the tanks are pumped to high pressure by small cryogenic pumps and injected into the steam generator where combustion takes place at controlled stoichiometric conditions.

Research was conducted on cryogenic components, subminiaturization of components, and superfast switching devices, called tunnel diodes.

We are leaning out from a wall almost half a kilometer above a bridge about half a kilometer above a pool of cryogenic nitrogen trifluoride, talking about how the various things that hold our ropes to said wall may give way at any time.

This time when she left the cencom she took a shaft up to the mid-shell chamber where she and Gracias had their cryogenic capsules.

It was passing through the second set of cryogenic storage decks, two hundred and fifty levels capable of holding one hundred and twenty thousand, though of course there was currently only one sleeper, if one was so generously inclined as to describe the Captain's state as sleep.

So the bodies were put into metal dewars filled with liquid nitrogen, frozen solid at cryogenic temperature while the lawyers argued and ran up their fees.

Kelven had seen the cryogenic tanker as Ilex docked with the huge flagship.

The escape capsule in which he'd cold-slept had had another minor malfunction that left him staring drugged and half conscious through the port glass at open space for two days before the cryogenic process had kicked in.

Although the sun was now high in the sky, the rocket was bathed in brilliant artificial light, wreathed in vapor breathed by the mass of cryogenic fuels in its tanks.

He ran quickly through the parameters of the cluster's operation: consumables usage, attitude control propellant usage, cryogenic store boiloff.

Shari shouted, firing a stream of the cryogenic liquid at the catwalk and the Posleen.