TIL Liquid Helium is the perfect element to keep the superconductive magnets in MRI machines cold lbnmedical.com Submitted by Alternative-Leg1095 t3_y69ce4 on October 17, 2022 at 12:01 PM in todayilearned 109 comments 724
RRumpleTeazzer t1_isp0jby wrote on October 17, 2022 at 5:06 PM It might be the best suited one (otherwise it wouldn’t get used), but not the perfect one. It’s expensive as hell, supply is basically nonexistent, and earth is constantly evaporating Helium in the upper atmospheres. Permalink 2
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