McLeod gauge

noun

McLeod gauge

noun

Etymology Invented in 1874 by Herbert McLeod.

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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics a device, rather like a manometer, used to measure low pressures close to that of a vacuum, by using an application of Boyle's law

Related terms
sticky vacuum

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