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How barium keeps vacuum tubes truly empty

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It functions strictly as the chemical equivalent of a desperately lonely vacuum cleaner. It violently bonds with completely random stray gases, making it perfectly useful for artificially keeping glass vacuum tubes completely pure.

How barium keeps vacuum tubes truly empty
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