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Vacuum chamber   /vˈækjum tʃˈeɪmbər/   Listen
Vacuum chamber

noun
1.
A chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removed.





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"Vacuum chamber" Quotes from Famous Books



... mechanical shock, and susceptible of being maintained at a temperature of over two thousand degrees for a thousand hours or more before breaking. And this filamentary conductor required to be supported in a vacuum chamber so perfectly formed and constructed that during all those hours, and subjected as it is to varying temperatures, not a particle of air should enter to disintegrate the filament. And not only so, but the lamp after its design must not be a mere ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin


Words linked to "Vacuum chamber" :   chamber


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