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In vacuo   Listen
adverb
In vacuo  adv.  (Physics) In a vacuum; in empty space; as, experiments in vacuo.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"In vacuo" Quotes from Famous Books



... through heated air nearly three inches in length, and of a dazzling splendor. Several bodies which had not been fused before were fused by this flame.... Charcoal was made to evaporate, and plumbago appeared to fuse in vacuo. Charcoal was ignited to intense whiteness by it in oxymuriatic acid, and volatilized by it, but without ...
— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh

... of life—of a low order, it is true, but none the less life," said the philosopher, proudly. "These were created from water chemically pure, with the exception of a trace of ammonia, and impregnated with liquid carbon, by the combined action of heat and induced electricity, in vacuo. Look!" ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 • Various

... have been made to facilitate the penetration of textile fabrics by the dyeing and bleaching solutions, with which they require to be treated, by carrying out the treatment in vacuo, i.e., in such apparatus as shall allow of the air being withdrawn. The apparatus shown in the annexed engraving—Austrian Pat. Jan. 15, 1884—although not essentially different from those already in use, embodies, the Journal of the Society ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 • Various

... fremens manus in ora torsit, at contra truces oculi steterunt et suam intenti manum ultro insequuntur, vulneri occurrunt suo. scrutatur avidus manibus uncis lumina, radice ab ima funditus vulsos simul evolvit orbes; haeret in vacuo manus et fixa penitus unguibus lacerat cavos alte recessus luminum et inanes sinus saevitque frustra plusque quam satis ...
— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler



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