ultracooled

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

ultra- +‎ cooled

Adjective[edit]

ultracooled (not comparable)

  1. Cooled to a very low temperature.
    • 2007 February 8, Kenneth Chang, “Wizardry at Harvard: Physicists Move Light”, in New York Times[1]:
      In 1999, Dr. Hau headed a team of scientists that slowed light, which travels a brisk 186,282 miles a second when unimpeded, to a leisurely 38 miles an hour by shining it into an exotic, ultracooled cloud of sodium atoms.