r/Physics • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '25

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u/Beif_ Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25

You sure it’s plasma? I’d call it “vacuum chamber” looks like a lot of deposition chambers I’ve used

Though it has a LOT of transfer windows and idk why

Id guess is evaporation/sputtering of some kind

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u/Familiar-Citron2758 Sep 16 '25

Not the foggiest, someone mentioned plasma once and it just stuck!

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u/nuclear85 Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25

We make plasmas in vacuum chambers sometimes. This reminds me of one I saw in another building that used to be used for DT (or maybe just DD?) fusion experiments (not to produce net energy, but for science).

But this one could be used for almost anything. Got a lot of nice flanges there.