vacuum tube
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For a time, it used 5 million volts of electricity to shoot hydrogen nuclei down a vacuum tube at up to 100 million miles an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
It accelerates electrons within a long vacuum tube to high energy and near–light-speed, while magnets steer them around the ring.
From Science Magazine ● May 3, 2023
At the bank drive-through, they watched endorsed checks whoosh through the vacuum tube toward the teller waiting at the window.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2023
Researchers are preparing to scrutinize nature at tiny scales by stretching supercooled atoms into room-length waves as they drop them down a 100-meter vacuum tube.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 14, 2020
There were no windows, for there was no scenery to see in the subsurface vacuum tube.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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