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Ultra-High Vacuum (UHV) is an official term for really really fancy vacuum of a certain (extremely low) range of pressures. And it's the type of vacuum we care about the most. 


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For molecules in UHV the mean free path is at least 200 miles. Any molecule in UHV is going to see the chamber walls thousands of times before it will see another molecule. 

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