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Cryogenic vs Cryogenesis - What's the difference?

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Cryogenic is a related term of cryogenesis.


As an adjective cryogenic

is of, relating to, or performed at low temperatures.

As a noun cryogenesis is

the combination of thermophysical, physiochemical, physiomechanical processes occurring in freezing and thawing earth materials.

cryogenic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of, relating to, or performed at low temperatures

    • Related terms

    * cryogen * cryogenics

    See also

    * cryonic

    cryogenesis

    English

    Noun

    (cryogeneses)
  • The combination of thermophysical, physiochemical, physiomechanical processes occurring in freezing and thawing earth materials.
  • The geologic processes that create permafrost.
  • The process of mediablasting a surface with dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide).

    • Related terms

    * cryogen * cryogenic * cryogenics

    References

  • 2011 : Pratap Singh, Umesh Kumar Haritashya, P. Pradeep Kumar, Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers
    • *: Soil cryogenesis is defined as a process dictating many important properties and regimes of permafrost affected soils. Soil cryogenesis is influenced by climatic parameters, the earth-atmosphere interactions, the properties of soils, the conditions of the permafrost.
  • 1991 : American Institute of Biological Sciences, Soviet soil science, Volume 23, Issues 1-5
    • *: Cryogenesis controls soil formation in the permafrost zone..