Re: vacuum of space

From: Howie Glatter (howieglatter_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: 30 Jun 2004 14:44:18 -0700

"Mike Thomas" wrote :
>I use it as a relative term as in Gradient. There is a potential
>High to Low pressure gradient. The idea is that the vacuum does not
>have the differential force to accelerate gas atoms to escape velocity.
>That's what you should have said or something like it.

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