Cooling
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cooling
[′kül·iŋ] (nucleonics)
Setting aside a highly radioactive material until the radioactivity has diminished to a desired level.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Cooling
a decrease in body temperature in warm-blooded animals and humans as a result of heat emission that exceeds the formation of heat in the organism. Such a decrease may also result from derangement of the thermoregulatory mechanisms. Cooling is also called hypothermia.
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