Word: supercold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absolute zero. When Kapitsa returned to the Soviet Union for a visit in 1934, Stalin refused to let him leave again-on the ground that he was too precious a commodity to be allowed abroad. Continuing his experiments at home, Kapitsa helped shed light on the extraordinary behavior of supercold helium-helium II-which acts as a perfect fluid, so lacking in viscosity that it will creep over the wall of a glass container. After World War II, Kapitsa was placed under house arrest in what was apparently a dispute with Secret Police Chief Lavrenti Beria, who was then also...
...form of small shipments made to Boston's Distrigas Corp. to supplement supplies during New England's chilly winters. But from next week on, one of a fleet of nine El Paso tankers will deposit LNG at Cove Point roughly every 60 hours. There, the supercold liquid, which arrives at a temperature of 259° F. below zero, will be heated until it turns back into gas, then piped through the networks of Columbia Gas System and Pittsburgh-based Consolidated Natural Gas Co. to 7 million Eastern customers...
...improvement in methods of generating and transmitting electricity. One remedy is an advanced but until recently neglected system with the awesome name of magnetohydrodynamics. MHD can produce electricity directly from the high-velocity flow of hot, ionized gases, with 60% efficiency instead of the present 35%. Similarly, superconductive, supercold (-320° F.) power lines can cut transmission losses. Though both technologies are costly, they would yield much more power per unit of fuel with less pollution...
...less than a minute, one of the service module's two spherical oxygen tanks was completely empty; nearly 320 Ibs. of supercold ( -297° F.) oxygen, a highly pressured mix of gas and liquid, had gushed out of the spacecraft, apparently through a rupture in its thin alloy skin. Looking out of his window, Lovell could see vapor streaming by. "We are venting something into space," he reported. "It's a gas of some sort." At the same time, the spacecraft began to pitch and roll in reaction to the violent expulsion...