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Crookes tube

–noun Electronics.
a form of cathode-ray tube.

Origin:
1880–85; after Sir W. Crookes
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Crookes tube  
n.  A low-pressure discharge tube used to study the properties of cathode rays.

[After Sir William Crookes.]
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