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Problems of cryostatic cooling below 2 K. 2. Analysis of principal refrigerator schemes

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Translated from Khimicheskoe i Neftyanoe Mashinostroenie, No. 3, pp. 16–18, March, 1991.

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Kuz'menko, I.F. Problems of cryostatic cooling below 2 K. 2. Analysis of principal refrigerator schemes. Chem Petrol Eng 27, 145–149 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01150085

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