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23 Sep 2000 at 11:18 pm
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Vacume breaker is placed inline or on a tap. Say you have a hose, one end on a tap the other sitting in some chemicals (weed killer etc). If the mains burst, its possible the vacume will draw the chemicals back into the mains. THe vacuma breaker picks up the pressure difference change, and introduces air into the system to break the vacume/syphone