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  2. Helium - Wikipedia

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    Solid helium requires a temperature of 1–1.5 K (about −272 °C or −457 °F) at about 25 bar (2.5 MPa) of pressure. [107] It is often hard to distinguish solid from liquid helium since the refractive index of the two phases are nearly the same.

  3. Liquid helium - Wikipedia

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    Liquid helium is a physical state of helium at very low temperatures at standard atmospheric pressures.Liquid helium may show superfluidity.. At standard pressure, the chemical element helium exists in a liquid form only at the extremely low temperature of −269 °C (−452.20 °F; 4.15 K).

  4. Helium cryogenics - Wikipedia

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    The combination of helium’s extremely low molecular weight and weak interatomic reactions yield interesting properties when helium is cooled below its critical temperature of 5.2 K to form a liquid. Even at absolute zero (0K), helium does not condense to form a solid under ambient pressure.

  5. Explainer-What is helium and why is it used in rockets? - AOL

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    Helium also has a very low boiling point (-268.9°C or -452°F), allowing it to remain a gas even in super-cold environments, an important feature because many rocket fuels are stored in that ...

  6. Helium compounds - Wikipedia

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    This substance could be a way to store helium in a solid. [97] La 2/3-x Li 3x TiO 3 He is a porous lithium ion conduction perovskite that can contain helium like a clathrate. [33] Helium is predicted to be included under pressure in ionic compounds of the form A 2 B or AB 2. These compounds could include Na 2 OHe, MgF 2 He (over 107 GPa) and ...

  7. State of matter - Wikipedia

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    In a string-net liquid, atoms have apparently unstable arrangement, like a liquid, but are still consistent in overall pattern, like a solid. When in a normal solid state, the atoms of matter align themselves in a grid pattern, so that the spin of any electron is the opposite of the spin of all electrons touching it.

  8. Cryogenics - Wikipedia

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    Nitrogen is a liquid under −195.8 °C (77.3 K).. In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures.. The 13th International Institute of Refrigeration's (IIR) International Congress of Refrigeration (held in Washington, DC in 1971) endorsed a universal definition of "cryogenics" and "cryogenic" by accepting a threshold of 120 K (−153 °C) to ...

  9. Absolute zero - Wikipedia

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    However, Kamerlingh Onnes, his rival, was the first to liquefy helium, in 1908, using several precooling stages and the Hampson–Linde cycle. He lowered the temperature to the boiling point of helium −269 °C (−452.20 °F; 4.15 K). By reducing the pressure of the liquid helium, he achieved an even lower temperature, near 1.5 K.