Crookes tube

Crookes tube
noun
the original gas-discharge cathode-ray tube
Hypernyms: ↑cathode-ray tube, ↑CRT

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noun
Usage: usually capitalized C
Etymology: after Sir Wm. Crookes
: a vacuum tube evacuated to a pressure of about .04 mm of mercury for demonstrating the properties of cathode rays

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Electronics.
a form of cathode-ray tube.
[1880-85; after Sir W. CROOKES]

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Crookes tube /krŭks tūb/ (physics)
noun
A sealed, evacuated tube in which stratification in electric discharges can be observed
ORIGIN: Ety as for ↑Crookes glass

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Crookes tube,
a form of vacuum tube which has been highly exhausted so as to permit free molecular motion.
[< Sir William Crookes]

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