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Crookes tube   Listen
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Crookes tube  n.  (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.





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"Crookes tube" Quotes from Famous Books



... of investigating the body by means of the X rays is very simple, as is shown in Figure 1. The Crookes tube, actuated from a storage battery or other source of electricity through a Ruhmkorff coil, is placed on one side of the body. If need be, instead of using the entire tube, the rays from the most effective portion of it only are allowed to impinge upon the part of the ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various


Words linked to "Crookes tube" :   cathode-ray tube, CRT


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