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Crookes tube

noun

, Electronics.
  1. a form of cathode-ray tube.


Crookes tube

noun

  1. a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Crookes tube1

First recorded in 1880–85; after Sir W. Crookes
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Example Sentences

The whole party began to look uneasy and gazed apprehensively at the huge Crookes tube which still stood in its supporting frame on the table.

My idealizator is the means of transforming psychons to quanta, just as, for instance, a Crookes tube or X-ray tube transforms matter to electrons.

The atoms of matter were breaking down in Crookes tubes.

On that day Dr. Röntgen was working with a Crookes tube in his laboratory.

The phenomena produced both inside and outside a Crookes tube are, however, generally complex.

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