LIQUID NITROGEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liquid nitrogen mean? 

• LIQUID NITROGEN (noun)
  The noun LIQUID NITROGEN has 1 sense:

1. nitrogen in a liquid state

  Familiarity information: LIQUID NITROGEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIQUID NITROGEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nitrogen in a liquid state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("liquid nitrogen" is a kind of...):

atomic number 7; N; nitrogen (a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues)

cryogen (a liquid that boils at below -160 C and is used as a refrigerant)

 Context examples 

A container used to ship products frozen in liquid nitrogen.

(Dry Shipper, NCI Thesaurus)

A brand of cryofreezers designed to store samples in liquid nitrogen or vapor phase liquid nitrogen.

(MVE Freezer, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition to vaults to store seed at minus 20° Celsius, it includes laboratories, in vitro storage rooms, liquid nitrogen tanks, and animal and microorganism DNA samples.

(LatAm's largest gene bank unveiled in Brasília, Agência BRASIL)

These lakes with steep edges, ramparts and raised rims would be a signpost of periods in Titan's history when there was liquid nitrogen on the surface and in the crust.

(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)

Methods for preserving egg cells such as oocyte cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen.

(Egg Preservation, NCI Thesaurus)

Liquid nitrogen or liquid carbon dioxide is used to freeze the tissue.

(Cryosurgery, NCI Dictionary)

A proprietary computerized system for liquid nitrogen cryopreservation, tracking, and retrieval for stem cell samples.

(BioArchive System, NCI Thesaurus)

To determine structures by cryo-EM, protein suspensions are flash-frozen at liquid nitrogen temperatures, so the water around the protein molecules stays liquid-like.

(Near-atomic resolution of protein structure by electron microscopy holds promise for drug discovery, NIH)

Examples include short term storage in buffered media with serum at reduced temperature and long term cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen.

(Embryo Preservation, NCI Thesaurus)

A cryoprobe is cooled with substances such as liquid nitrogen, liquid nitrous oxide, or compressed argon gas.

(Cryoablation, NCI Dictionary)