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Doing the experiment myself is not really feasible for a number of technical reasons. To obtain reasonable pressures would require a multi-day bakeout procedure, so it takes awhile. On top of that, you can't have a particularly accurate control experiment, since baking a system twice will almost...

I recently had some discussions about the use of aluminum in a ultra-high vacuum (UHV) apparatus. There seem to be those who believe Al is good in UHV and those who believe it is bad. I was wondering if anyone has some authoritative source for information on this. Those who believe it is bad...