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Old 03-10-2010, 05:34 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Christ View Post

Vacuum can only truly occur in a sealed container which does not contain atmosphere, which means that since an intake manifold constantly has some amount of air in it, there is no actual vacuum, only a reduction in ambient pressure of the volume of air present.


How exactly are you defining "vacuum", by the technical definition - space absent of matter? The term seems to be tossed around loosely these days. A perfect vacuum isn't possible on earth, questionable even in deep space. Maybe I have been wrong for using the term "vacuum" for any absolute pressure less than one atmosphere.
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