I want to assemble battery but that requires moisture free atmosphere but the argon glove box I have access to cannot create vacuum above 10^-2 torr. So what I can do is just simple purging of argon gas in a little vacuum so can that reduce the Moisture/Oxygen to less than 1ppm.(Working Area=1.2m2)
Yes, with a clean argon or nitrogen, with a purity of 5.0 or 6.0 (99.999% or 99.9999%), you reach the similar oxygen (moisture) partial pressure as in a vacuum < 10-3 Pa (< 10-4 torr). Argon 6.0 certainly has less than 1 ppm of moisture.
However, you need in the box an overpressure of about 5 mbar and a continuous gas flow of about 5-10 liters per minute.
Thanks for the reply Sir !
But does that mean that the size of the gloves box does not matter as I already mentioned the gloves box we have has a big working of 1.2m^2.
For 2-5 m3 box volume, a gas flow of 5-10 liters per minute is sufficient. For an even larger volume, the gas flow must be increased accordingly. Of course, you must flush the box with the gas about 1 hour before the work, so that the whole air is gone.
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