vacuum chamber
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- noun
- /ˈvæk.juːm ˈtʃeɪm.bər/
- Specialized
:
cámara de vacío
- The technician conducted the experiment inside a vacuum chamber to ensure no air interfered with the results.
- a large vacuum chamber
It doesn't have the high vacuum chamber that the Iron Microprope has.
- It doesn't have the high vacuum chamber that the Iron Microprope has.
- So there are huge vacuum chambers where we simulate the vacuum of space.
- Of course, as we know, when we have ultra cooled atoms in a room temperature vacuum chamber, the atoms do not actually plate.
Examples
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After drying, I loaded the slide into my vacuum chamber and did some thermal deposition of aluminum.
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The CSP is a benchtop device that features a vacuum chamber evacuated by a turbo-molecular pump and a specimen stage that supports precision x-y.
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You have several small vacuum chambers in your home.
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So when I turn on my vacuum chamber, the balloons will expand.
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So there are huge vacuum chambers where we simulate the vacuum of space.
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InnoVac also specializes in providing custom vacuum chambers and systems.
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Two large vacuum-chamber tanks with slightly over 2 feet of inside clearance in the magnetic field direction were stacked in the 72-inch gap.
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When we arrived at Berkeley, experiments were already under way in a small vacuum-chamber tank placed between the pole pieces of the 37-inch magnet.
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Manufacturing capabilities include: vacuum chambers, subassemblies, standard and custom vacuum hardware, as well as complete deposition systems and deposition components.
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The right-hand photo shows the central part of the vacuum chamber for my group's sodium condensates, surrounded by optics for laser cooling and optical probing.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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4.2
A space with no air or other matter
How Airtight
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sealed enclosure with almost all air removed' is directly derivable from combining 'vacuum' (an empty space lacking air) and 'chamber' (an enclosed space). This is a regular noun–noun composition found across languages and follows standard compositional patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Vacuum chamber paints a simple picture: a sealed chamber, a box or room, that holds a vacuum, almost 'no air', inside. Scientists put objects into this empty box to copy 'space' or to test things without air, so the name explains its meaning.