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WHAT is hermetic sealing? I have been under the belief that it means sealing with the material composing the object to be sealed; as in the case of sealing a glass tube in the spirit-lamp. M. Bordier's charming paper on the Greenland Eskimo (NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 16), says that an aperture in a hut is hermetically sealed with goldbeater's skin; and that a fisherman is hermetically enveloped round the loins by a leathern bag. You may, perhaps, think it worth while, in the interest of accurate scientific terminology, to settle the point.
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T., W. “Hermetically Sealed”. Nature 18, 66 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018066d0
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