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Dennis, maybe I need to go read one of your books, but can you succintly indicate how you make metal plate on the lunar surface in vacuo - I understand the materials are there and the solar energy is there, but how is the metal concentrated into workable material?
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Is that something that has been verified in vacuo?
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The precipitate is dried in vacuo to remove all trace of the alcohol.
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The clear filtrate is concentrated in vacuo to about 1/15 of its original volume.
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The alcoholic solution of pancreas was filtered and the filtrate concentrated by evaporation of the alcohol and water in vacuo or in a warm air current.
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As for the second, judgment, it is rare for us to be able to judge "in vacuo" without knowing at all what will be the consequences of our judgment.
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Their poems can no more be studied in vacuo than Milton and Chaucer themselves.
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I myself had demonstrated that long absence of releasing stimuli tends to lower their threshold, even to the point of the activity's eruption in vacuo.
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Again, in vacuo, that is when the pressure has been reduced to the relatively small vapour pressure of the water, the freezing point is above 0° C., _i. e._ at 0. 0075° C.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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I regard the Mercury, Gemini and pre-Landing Apollo Earth and Lunar orbit operations as highly constructive steps along the way, working out the concept of orbital rendezvous and testing systems in a cost-effective manner, that did not require the establishment of a string of permanent nodes in vacuo for their own sake.
frangarnes commented on the word vacuo
Vacío, falto de contenido
October 20, 2007