vacuum pan

noun

1. a vessel equipped with a vacuum pump used for rapid evaporation by boiling a substance at a low temperature under reduced pressure.

Example Sentences

This necessity will be less urgent if the liquor be made to boil before being introduced into the vacuum pan.

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The repetition of this process for two or three times is imagined to produce the large brilliant grain of vacuum-pan sugar.

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But when the vacuum pan was introduced the molasses was impoverished of its sweetness and beet sugar does not yield any molasses.

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The process of emptying the vacuum pan is technically called a "strike."

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The original vacuum pan used by Gail Borden in 1853 for condensing milk by concentrating it in a vacuum.

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