in vacuo

English

Etymology

From Latin in + vacuum (“void, vacuum”)

Adverb

In a partial or full vacuum
The distillation is performed in vacuo to avoid decomposition of the compounds under study.

References

“in vacuo” (US) / “in vacuo” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

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