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I'm curious, what's the definition of hard vacuum?

Obviously there will be a few nitrogen molecules bouncing around in there so it seems there must be some arbitrary cutoff.

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I worked with electron microscopes back in the day, for that I would say 10^-6 atmospheres. But it probably depends somewhat on your application, I don't think there is a solid definition.

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