English Explanatory Dictionary

Sprengel pump

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of vacuum pump in which vacuum is produced by a stream of mercury drops running down a very narrow tube

Word forms

Sprengel pump Sprengel pumps

Etymology

Named after the inventor, Hermann Sprengel

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