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Rough Vacuum—The Essential but Overlooked Technology

Vacuum is critical to many lab processes, especially while maintaining pharmaceutical quality standards

Written byAgilent Technologies
| 1 min read

What do mass spectrometers, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and guitar amps have in common? An utter reliance on vacuum technology. Vacuum enables scientific progress in everything from mundane lab tasks to major discoveries in high-energy physics and deep space exploration.

The ubiquity of vacuum technology is explained by the various functions vacuum serves. Vacuum is used to prevent electrical breakdown, prevent or control chemical reactions, create “clean” surfaces for deposition, dry materials, manipulate boiling point, move particles over long distances, or apply physical force.

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