vacua

How to use vacua in a sentence

• From Dr. Crookes experiments on very high vacua, we may infer that there is very little loss of heat, except by radiation.

  The Chautauquan, Vol. III, December 1882 | The Chautauquan Literary and Scientific Circle

• It will be understood that for high vacua, low temperature of cooling water (Ti) is more important than copious supply (Q/W).

  Animal Proteins | Hugh Garner Bennett

• Another illustration of the power of cooled charcoal to produce high vacua is afforded by a Crookes radiometer.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 7 | Various

• Atria regum hominibus plena sunt, amicis vacua—The courts of kings are full of men, empty of friends.

  Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources | James Wood

• Finally, I thought I would try it because we had got very high vacua and good conditions for it.

  Historic Inventions | Rupert S. Holland