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Penn State magnet

JUL 01, 1966
Physics Today

A 100 000‐gauss magnet has been added to the facilities of the Cryogenics Laboratory at The Pennsylvania State University. The magnet will be used to help cool experimental samples by adiabatic demagnetization to temperatures very near absolute zero. (Temperatures as low as 0.00002 °K have been reached in work at the Penn State laboratory.)

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