Tag: Vacuum Terminology

Vacuum Technology: To EP or Not to EP?

High vacuum chamber
This is a Re-Post of Blog article by Garrett Hanrahan of ANCORP Before you determine whether or not to specify an EP (electropolish) finish on a custom-fabricated vacuum component or chamber, it helps to know what electropolishing can and cannot

Vacuum Technology Basics: Many Different Levels of “Vacuum”

The term “vacuum,” as it pertains to the use of vacuum to study its effects or to enable something to happen in a high technology sense, has a broad range of definitions and sub-categories. Two very different definitions are: 1. a space entirely devoid of matter.