What is "high vacuum"

Usage examples of "high vacuum".

The engines, called hydroturbines, were actually thermonuclear reactors of the flowstream type, and hydrogen in high vacuum served as their fuel.

McAndrew had donned a suit, one of the new transparent models so light that you could sit in high vacuum and hardly realize you had a suit on at all.

The black hole was undetectable at any wavelength, as quiescent in the region's high vacuum as the neutron stars had been, but Yatima imagined a speck of distorted darkness midway between Hough 187 and 10 Lacertae.

Peaks of the branescape represent loopy branes with high vacuum energy, valleys represent loopy branes with low vacuum energy.

It exists solely to provide Alpha Centauri system with products of the very highest sophistication-products whose manufacture demands zero gravity or unlimited high vacuum or gigawatts of solar power.

Countless centers of more-active gas sublimation had riddled the dusty plains, ripping free to join the high vacuum.

The experiments on fabricating thin-film video screens and special alloys in zero gravity and the high vacuum of space were going well.

A mercury vapor pump will take it out, of course, and keep a high vacuum, but we'd never make any progress.

As soon as the gauge needle showed a high vacuum, the valve was snapped shut and the pump disconnected.

The high vacuum or low gravity or intense radiation environment of near-Earth space might be utilized, it is said, for commercial benefit.

The shells were apparently magnetically suspended -- at least the instructions included a powerful magnetic field generator,' and the space between the spherical shells and the dodecahedron was to be a high vacuum.

The shells were apparently magnetically suspended--at least the instructions included a powerful magnetic field generator,' and the space between the spherical shells and the dodecahedron was to be a high vacuum.