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An all-metal ultra-high vacuum valve is described. The valve has a continuously variable conductance from about 1 l/sec to less than 10−14 l/sec and presumably as small as desired. An equilibrium method of measuring small leakage conductances is described.
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Bills et al. (1955) studied this question.
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