Vacuum
Vacuum is a term that describes conditions where the pressure is lower than that of the atmosphere. A sealed container is said to be "under vacuum" in this case whereas it is "pressurized" when...
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Vacuum
A vacuum is defined as a space devoid of matter.
Atomism, a ancient Greek school of philosophy which flourished about 400 B.C., held that a vacuum was an essential part of nature in which atoms...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vacuum cleaners kill fleas
just as well as any poison, surprised U.S. researchers said
Tuesday. They said a standard vacuum cleaner abuses the fleas so
much it kills 96 perc...
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Nearly five years after rolling onto the market, the Roomba vacuum cleaner has undergone a ground-up redesign that has endowed the otherwise-brainy robot with the smarts to overcome rug tassels and...
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BEIRUT, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament failed on
Friday to grasp its last chance to elect a head of state before
pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud leaves office at midnight,
creating a va...
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A dinosaur with a strange jaw designed to hoover-up food grazed in what is now the Sahara Desert 110 million years ago. Remains of the creature that "flabbergasted" paleontologist Paul Sereno went ...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists have figured out a
way to trick plants into doing the dirty work of environmental
cleanup, U.S. and British researchers reported Monday. Researchers at the Universit...
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BEIRUT, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Lebanon's turmoil worsened on
Friday with rival political camps failing to find a consensus
that would allow parliament to choose a new head of state before
pro-Syrian P...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH MITARAI'S FRESH REMARKS, MORE TO FOLLOW)
Japanese business leaders on Wednesday voiced concern about a
political vacuum being created in the world's second-largest economy...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH MORE INFO, INCORPORATING STORY HEADLINED 'ABE
PLANS TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE MONDAY EVENING')
Outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologized to the public for
the first ti...
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(EDS: ADDITIONAL REMARKS IN 8TH-11TH GRAFS)
Japanese business leaders on Wednesday voiced concern about a
political vacuum being created in the world's second-largest economy
following Prime...
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