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Re:The Art of Making a Nixie Tube [video] by fake-name on Sunday October 02, 2016 @07:47PM (#12624857)
Uh, what?

Production involves pumping down to high vacuum, heating to degas, and then refilling with neon/argon at low pressure. Granted the production tube isn't at high vacuum, but it's not equivalent to ambient.

Re:The Art of Making a Nixie Tube [video] by erikpukinskis on Sunday October 02, 2016 @11:44PM (#12625440)
When they fill it with gas, wouldn't you say it is no longer a vacuum?