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hydrogen and helium can be liquefied by modifications of Linde’s method. The Hampson-Linde process is particularly useful. All such processes rely on the Joule-Thompson effect, that is, the cooling of a compressed gas flowing quickly by way of a nozzle into a low-pressure chamber. The cooled air leaving the chamber then cools the gaseous air entering the JT device, then it’s compressed while being cooled and re-sent through the nozzle. However, the temperature of the gas must be lower than it’s inversion temperature before it can be liquefied this way. That is why a series of liquefied gases with higher boiling points are used to cool those with lower b.p. Each gas has a b.p. that’s below the inversion temperature of the gas that follows it in the cascade, thereby ensuring that the lower gas in the cascade can be liquefied.