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In 1948 he developed the flash filament method for measuring very low pressures, which was the first widely used method for measuring pressures less than Torr. In this method, a gas is allowed to adsorb onto a clean tungsten filament for a set amount of time, and the filament is then rapidly heated. The gas adsorbed onto the filament is released, and the resulting pressure burst can be measured.

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