What is a bell jar?

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A bell jar is a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect and display delicate objects or to cover scientific apparatus or to contain gases. A more scientific definition is: a glass, quartz, or stainless steel chamber used to isolate substrates in a subatmospheric environment for deposition or etch.

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