The techniques make use of the Gibbs Thomson effect : small crystals of a liquid in the pores melt at a lower temperature than the bulk liquid : The melting point depression is inversely proportional to the pore size.
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In practice, the Joule Thomson effect is achieved by allowing the gas to expand through a throttling device ( usually a valve ) which must be very well insulated to prevent any heat transfer to or from the gas.
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On the other hand, real-gas models have to be used near the condensation point of gases, near critical points, at very high pressures, to explain the Joule Thomson effect and in other less usual cases.
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The term premelting is used to describe the reduction in the melting temperature ( below 0 �C ) which results from the surface curvature of water that's confined in a porous medium ( the Gibbs-Thomson effect ).
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He next experimented with a high-pressure hydrogen jet by which low temperatures were realised through the Joule Thomson effect, and the successful results he obtained led him to build at the Royal Institution a large regenerative cooling refrigerating machine.
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:: Extremely low temperatures are achieved first by evaporating liquid helium ( liquefaction of helium being achieved by the Joule-Thomson effect ) and then by isentropic demagnetization of the subatomic particles ( so demagnetizing particles without changing entropy ).
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The collaboration lasted from 1852 to 1856, its discoveries including the Joule Thomson effect, sometimes called the Kelvin Joule effect, and the published results did much to bring about general acceptance of Joule's work and the kinetic theory.
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On the other hand, nitrogen and oxygen, the two most abundant gases in air, have inversion temperatures of 621 K ( 348 �C ) and 764 K ( 491 �C ) respectively : these gases can be cooled from room temperature by the Joule Thomson effect.
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The Gibbs-Thomson effect results in water migrating down a thermal gradient ( from higher temperatures to lower temperatures ); Dash states, & material is carried to colder regions & This can also be viewed energetically as favoring larger ice particles over smaller ( Ostwald ripening ).
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This led to the Joule-Thomson effect cryoprobe in 1965, using carbon dioxide or nitrous oxide to cool the probe, which could then be reheated electrically, or by warm gas to release the probe if the resulting iceball also adhered to the iris; this dramatically changed cataract and retinal surgery.
