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On 12/18/2015 7:36 PM, Justan Olphart wrote:
On 12/18/2015 4:39 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:08:05 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

14.7 should be enough to collapse all the air molecules at sea level.
The vaccum expert, and I mean expert should be along shortly to tell you
the whole story.

If that was true, there would not be any air here.
Check out Boyle's law

If you sucked 14.7 psi of air out of something at sea level you pretty
much sucked it all out.


The first 14 psi is easy. The .7 is a bitch (and expensive to do).

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