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In vacuo

adverb
1.
In isolation and without reference to anything else.
2.
In a vacuum.





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"In vacuo" Quotes from Famous Books



... point; for the substances experimented upon, if electrical conductors, must have acquired this state; and yet no evidence of attractive or repulsive powers has been observed. I have placed copper and silver discs, very delicately suspended on torsion balances in vacuo near to the poles of very powerful magnets, yet have not been able to observe the least ...
— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday
... picture of a man gazing from the leads down the side of a house—a wonderful piece of foreshortening that made one dizzy to see. Where had she seen that picture? Memory, that works indifferently on earth or in vacuo, told her of a book read by stealth in her novitiate, such a book as perils body and soul, and Sister Ursula blushed redder than the brickwork a foot before her nose. Everything that she had read in or thought about that book raced through her mind as all his past life does not race through the ...
— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various


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