Vacuum
A vacuum is a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter, such that its gaseous pressure is much less than atmospheric pressure. A false vacuum was a vacuum which existed in a metastable state.

According to Doctor Phlox, germs were able to survive in a vacuum. ()

Much of space was a vacuum. Odors were incapable of traveling through this vacuum, as once noted by Spock. ()

A vacuum chamber was a device that could create a vacuum inside of an enclosed container. Doctor Mora Pol subjected Odo to a vacuum chamber during his early experiments on the Changeling during the Occupation of Bajor. ()

Vacuum cleaners were used as a cleaning device as early as 20th century Earth. () A large backpack unit was used aboard the  in the 23rd century to collect tribbles after a lab breach. ()

In 2364, Captain Picard ordered that the medical lab on board the  be turned into a vacuum to contain the microbrain lifeform that was located there. ()

In 2370, with the discovery of a piece of wreckage from the  (lost twelve years previously), Commander Riker noted that the vacuum of space had preserved everything, including the dead bodies of the crew. ()

Lt. Commander Data was able to function for extended periods of time in a vacuum. ()

At least some Borg drones were capable of functioning in a vacuum. ()

See also
Power vacuum

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