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cold trap [′kōld ‚trap] (mechanical engineering) A tube whose walls are cooled with liquid nitrogen or some other liquid to condense vapors passing through it; used with diffusion pumps and to keep vapors from entering a McLeod gage. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Assembling thousands of ions in a cold trap produces the equivalent of a one-component plasma -- a collection of charged particles, all with the same mass and charge, embedded in a uniform, oppositely charged background. |
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