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| Crookes tube
n. A low-pressure discharge tube used to study the properties of cathode rays. [After Sir William Crookes.] |
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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| crookes tube | |
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| the original gas-discharge cathode-ray tube |
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Crookes tube
Crookes" tube`\ (kr??ks" t?b`). (Phys.) A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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