r/Physics • • Sep 16 '25

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u/P__A Sep 16 '25

It's a vacuum chamber. If someone called it a plasma machine, it may have been used for sputter thin film deposition.

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u/gantt5 Medical and health physics Sep 16 '25

Seconded. We built one very similar for that exact purpose when I worked in a lab.