vacua
Americannoun
noun
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The principal advantage of this construction was that it allowed of reaching extremely high vacua, and, at the same time of using a large bulb.
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In reality, however, the sum of our actions and cognitions is no series of facts and intervening vacua, but a continuous stream.
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Hittorf examined the phenomena exhibited in so-called high vacua, that is, in exceedingly rarefied gases.
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Trent settled deeper in his chair, his eyes lifted to the roaring funnels where volumes of smoke were sucked up as by invisible vacua.
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In nearly all pumps for producing the high vacua necessary, e.g. for the electric glow-lamp and the X-ray tube, mercury is employed.
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