Vacuum (laboratory)

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This article is about vacuum (laboratory). For other uses of the term vacuum, please see vacuum (disambiguation).

In common usage and in the scientific laboratory, the term vacuum refers to a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter having a gaseous pressure that is much less than atmospheric .