vacuum pan

noun

a vessel equipped with a vacuum pump used for rapid evaporation by boiling a substance at a low temperature under reduced pressure.

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This necessity will be less urgent if the liquor be made to boil before being introduced into the vacuum pan.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew Ure
The repetition of this process for two or three times is imagined to produce the large brilliant grain of vacuum-pan sugar.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew Ure
But when the vacuum pan was introduced the molasses was impoverished of its sweetness and beet sugar does not yield any molasses.
Creative Chemistry | Edwin E. Slosson
The process of emptying the vacuum pan is technically called a "strike."
Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 | Various
The original vacuum pan used by Gail Borden in 1853 for condensing milk by concentrating it in a vacuum.
Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology | John T. Schlebecker

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