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Cryogenics vs Cryogenesis - What's the difference?

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Cryogenics is a related term of cryogenesis.


As nouns the difference between cryogenics and cryogenesis

is that cryogenics is the science and technology of the production of very low temperatures while cryogenesis is the combination of thermophysical, physiochemical, physiomechanical processes occurring in freezing and thawing earth materials.

cryogenics

English

(wikipedia cryogenics)

Noun

(-)
  • the science and technology of the production of very low temperatures
  • the scientific study of low temperature phenomena

    • Derived terms

    * cryogenic * cryogen

    Related terms

    * cryo- * -genic * -ics

    See also

    * cryonics

    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..