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Crookes tube en · NOUN

Etymology

After Sir William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist and physicist, one of its inventors.

Meanings

  1. An early experimental electrical discharge tube by means of which cathode rays and X-rays were discovered.

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Coordinates

Hittorf tube

Synonyms

Crookes-Hittorf tube