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Magnetically cooled refrigerator demonstrated. (Materials Science/R&D).

Advanced Materials & Processes, February, 2002

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The world's first room-temperature, permanent magnet, magnetic refrigerator has been demonstrated at the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa Rather than refrigerants and compressors, the new refrigerator is based on gadolinium metal that heats up when exposed to a magnetic field, and cools off when the magnetic field is removed.

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"Previous successful demonstration refrigerators used large superconducting magnets, but this is the first to use a permanent magnet and operate at room temperature," says researcher Karl Gschneidner Jr. The refrigerator was ...

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Manufacturing Industry

Magnetically cooled refrigerator demonstrated. (Materials Science/R&D).

Advanced Materials & Processes, February, 2002

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