Dow704 diffusion pump oil (tetramethyl tetraphenyl trisiloxane) is used in large and medium diffusion pumps for a wide range of research and production applications, as the lower attainable pressure ...

THERE has long been a need for a diffusion pump oil which, while hot, would withstand atmospheric pressure without bad effects. G. P. Brown (Rev, Sci. Inst., 16, 316 ; Nov. 1945) has found that ...

It seems like creating a vacuum should be a pretty easy job, but it turns out that sucking all the air out of something is harder than it seems. A cheap vacuum pump will get you part of the way there, ...

If you need to create a high vacuum, there are basically two options: turbomolecular pumps and diffusion pumps. Turbomolecular pumps require rotors spinning at many thousands of rotations per minute ...