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Story: Cern's Large Hadron Collider powers up

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huh?

"In preparation for Wednesday's initiation, 37,000 tonnes of equipment had to be cooled down by 300°C to 1.9° above absolute zero (-271°C), using the world's most advanced superconducting magnet technologies."
Really? I thought they used liquid nitrogen and helium for that!

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