vacua
Americannoun
noun
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The study of apparatus for obtaining more perfect vacua was unceasingly carried on, for Edison realized that in this there lay a potent factor of ultimate success.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
In well-maintained plants bad vacua are commonly due to deficient air extraction, which may arise from the low-pressure air-piping not being air-tight, or from the air-pump being too small.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
This, being out of the phenomenal world, is subject to none of the laws of phenomena, and is consequently as absolutely free, and as completely powerless, as a mathematical point, in vacua, would be.
From Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Huxley, Thomas Henry
Puluj declares that the phenomena I have described in high vacua are produced by his irregularly shaped lumps of radiant electrode matter.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 by Various
In recording my investigations on the subject of radiant matter and the state of gaseous residues in high vacua under electrical strain, I must refer to certain attacks on the views I have propounded.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 by Various
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